Help Your Team To Love Learning By Cultivating These 4 Attitudes
Helpful tips for leaders to create a culture of learning and renewal in their organizations. It isn’t just Millennials who have a lot to learn
Essential Foundations Of Highly Successful Managers
Highly successful managers Since my very first job, I have always judged my managers and supervisors with two simple foundations. These foundations put together…
Abandon the Cult of Failure
The cult of failure is an opportunity to learn and try again The Silicon Valley buzzword that seems to have had the most reach–even…
Human Capital: A Cost to Manage or Investment to Embrace?
Is human capital a cost of doing business, or an investment you make in your organization’s future? That depends on, in part, on how…
The Best Employee is Nothing Special
Are our ideas about who is the best employee changing? The old wisdom that specialization is the key to unlocking productivity is just that:…
Managers: Change Priorities, or be Left Behind
Managers must change priorities The best talent is made, not discovered. Managers must change priorities. That is the unfortunate truth bubbling below the surface…
Is Your Business Complicated or Complex?
Complicated or complex? The financial crisis of 2008 contained some important lessons for managers. But they weren’t about honesty, transparency, or even really related…
Managers: Heed the ‘ Minority Report ’
Would your workplace benefit from a “minority report” approach? Stopping problems before they even become problematic—that is the dream. The new Fox series Minority…
Break Out of the Silo
Silo Thinking is the enemy to building skills Does your right hand know what the left is doing? Does it care to find out?…
Smart Growth Requires Trust
Love and Business Require Trust What separates entrepreneurs from the ‘worker bee’ types who fill jobs, rather than creating them? It isn’t financial savvy,…