Tag Archive: leaders

Mar 19 2014

Leader Know Thyself – Your Buttons

Think about someone you don’t like. Why don’t you like them? Now, consider someone who can really make you mad. What is it that they do that fires your temper? As my psychology professor once said, we all have buttons. The question is, how do we manage those buttons. Do we wear them …

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Mar 12 2014

Leader Know Thyself – Strengths and Weaknesses

What are you really good at? Be honest and put away the humility for a moment. Take a piece of paper and write two or three things you are really good at. For this exercise, try to keep it related to your leadership responsibilities. Maybe you’re good at speaking to people. Perhaps you’re …

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Feb 03 2014

Selecting Future Leaders

A recent question got me thinking again about the first step in selecting future leaders: recognizing the raw potential. The questioner wanted some short thoughts on what to look for in potential new leaders. I generally dislike communicating in sound bites because they tend to provide just enough information to cause trouble. But, …

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Jan 31 2014

Trust and Leadership

Effective leadership relies on trust. A successful leader must develop the trust of workers, customers, and partners. Trust and leadership are inseparable. The PR firm Edelman has released the 2014 Trust Barometer which has some valuable information for leaders. The barometer looks at various trust issues from more than 33,000 people in 27 …

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Jan 24 2014

Leading Multi-National Teams

It was a warm evening in Kuwait City. I was standing on a street corner talking to a local gentleman with whom I was working. As we chatted a young teen slowly cruised by with music blaring from his car stereo. After he passed and the noise level returned to normal we resumed …

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Jan 17 2014

Employee Surveys and Finding the Truth

Two different people in two totally different industries have contacted me in the last week to discuss employee surveys. In one case the company sent what they professed to be an anonymous opinion survey but the employees quickly discovered that there were markers which seemed to identify each survey with the person who …

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Jan 13 2014

Self-Managed Teams – Again

Zappos, the zany shoe manufacturer is in the news again. This time they have decided to do away with the corporate structure and go to self-managed teams. No more bosses! You can read about their initiative here. Yea! Wait a minute. Not so fast. Isn’t this a good idea? Put the workers who …

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Jan 03 2014

Whoops, Diversty Strikes Again

I’ll confess, I’m one of the dozen or so Americans who don’t watch Duck Dynasty. But, I am one of the millions who have been watching the controversy surrounding the Duck Dynasty patriarch, Phil Robertson’s, comments in an interview with GQ magazine. My interest in this is mainly as an example of what …

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Dec 26 2013

Leadership Lessons from Yahoo!

Last year the business world was abuzz as Yahoo! hired Marissa Mayer as their new CEO. Mayer has not disappointed those looking for things to write about. She has taken several bold steps in an effort to save Yahoo! from the ash heap of internet history. Since Mayer joined Yahoo! there have been …

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Dec 09 2013

The Leader As A Buffer

Last week I posted some comments on a leader’s responsibility to shield workers from bad leadership from above them in the organization. To follow up a little more, I suggest reading Will Your Bad Boss Make You a Bad Boss, Too? by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. Zenger and Folkman have done some …

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