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Analog Leadership Meets the Digital World
-- Faster isn't always better… Analog... "Analog..." Analog... it sounds so, well, old. Leadership, in its most successful, meaningful form, is not about size, scope, or reach. It's about relationships. Trusting relationships. Our followers trust those they hold out...
Leaders & Laggards – March 2017
Leaders & Laggards Revisited —Update #1 We’ve been publishing our Leaders & Laggards coming up on two years, give or take. It’s been fun, if not sometimes a bit of effort. And I can’t say we always agree with who wins what, though generally we find common...
Leadership and Playing Favorites
-- It’s what good leaders do! One of your best employees (by whatever performance measure you use) needs an extra day of bereavement leave for the death of a grandparent who raised her near single-handedly. This employee has been with you 6+ years, with no...
Where have all the people gone…?
Here’s an email I recently sent to my Houston-based clients. I’m adapting it for a nationwide article to the rest of my clients as well. Though it sounds regional (and in an extreme way, it is), the fact is that competent candidates are getting harder and harder to...
Decision-Making, Mistakes and Leadership
-- If you ain't failin', you ain't tryin' Oops! Mistakes. Nobody likes ‘em, everybody makes ‘em. Yet it still sends a quiver up the spines of leaders everywhere, hearing “you made a mistake.” Our minds start racing, searching for pieces of memory that could reveal...
Tip BIG for the deserving, and drop coal in the tip jars!
Ok, this is a bit of a reach for a Leadership blog, but not really. Tipping — gratuities for service employees — has reached entitlement status, not much different than many current, regular employees. This is interesting to me, as my wife and I are active consumers....
Anchors Aweigh
… what’s dragging your team down? Last week, I had a great conversation with an old boss (and friend) of mine who’s known me for 3+ decades. As I was standing in the lobby of his building, I read the press release about his being named as CEO of the Year by the local...
25 Leadership Tips and Hacks
I was just doing some thinking on a plane ride recently (not much else to do). Often, we are our own worst enemy, sabotaging our efforts with our own behavior. Though added resources (people, money, etc.) seem to be an answer to many of our challenges, the reality is...
Leaders & Laggards – January 2017
Leadership Leader Muhtar Kent, CEO of The Coca-Cola Company You didn’t have to do anything amazing in the last month or two to be our Leadership Leader for January. You just needed to demonstrate clear, personal leadership… and Muhtar Kent has been demonstrating it...
How to be a new leader?
I was asked this question on Quora: I have never been in leadership but I want to be a leader. How can I achieve this target? Though straight-forward, your question has some depth of thinking… Two things to start: Be a leader where you are. Demonstrate leadership,...
Let’s Talk
--aka: Communication for Dummies Sometimes, I just plain suck at communicating effectively. If you doubt me, ask my wife, my girls, my best friend Kevin, or any of the bosses I’ve worked for in the last 40 years. If you take a quick minute to reflect, you probably...
Leaders & Laggards | December 2016
Leadership Leader Katia Beauchamp, Birchbox CEO You know, sometimes we look for specific events or publicized actions to identify a really special leader. We’ve even been guilty of that here in our Leaders & Laggards section. And that’s shortsighted. How about,...
Across the Board isn’t enough…
So, with CPIs hovering around 3-3.5%, and most surveys showing 3.5-4.0% increases in salary budgets for 2007, life’s a breeze, right? Just add the percentages into the Excel formula, press “Enter,” and you’re done, right? Actually, wrong. Enter “wage inflation.” I’m...
