Just One Thing-Strive to Be a Better Team Participant
There are shelves of books and countless blog posts out there on improving team performance. Last I checked, there isn’t much for us to consume on the topic of improving our performance as team and project participants. Here are 12 ideas on to improve your participation and potentially raise the performance of everyone around you.
7 Ideas to Enhance Your Career During Your Firm’s Strategic Planning Process
If you are tapped to participate in your firm’s strategic planning process, it’s important to approach this work as a career building opportunity, and not simply “more work” piled on top of your already overloaded schedule. Here are 7 Ideas to help you leverage this great opportunity:
Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast-J. Keith Murnighan on Do Nothing!
Kellogg Professor and author, J. Keith Murnighan, offers up some fascinating and occasionally counter-intuitive (and research backed) ideas in Do Nothing! How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader. This is a fun and eminently useful leadership read!
New Leader Tuesday-How to Be Viewed as a Jerk from Day One
The bookshelves and blog posts are filled with great advice on how to lead effectively, yet, mostly what I hear in workshops and classrooms are the stories of the lousy habits of Grade A Jerks. Since there are clearly many people who aspire to this lofty level in the world of Jerks, I thought I would make your job just a bit easier by offering up this starter list. Here are 14 ideas guaranteed to help you succeed in being viewed as a Grade A Jerk:
Leadership Caffeine™-The Case for Hiring Outside the Lines of Your Industry
It’s often politically unpopular and seemingly risky to hire for a key role outside of the boundaries of your firm’s industry. It also might be just the right thing to infuse your team or organization with fresh perspectives and new ideas.
New Leader Tuesday: Trust Feeds Respect and Builds Performance
Respect. It’s a complex concept filled, filled with nuance and subtlety and gesture, all buried in a simple word. Most of us are wired to appreciate respect and to reciprocate in kind. And vice-versa. One of the most powerful and effective ways to show respect is to extend our trust. Of course, for all of us, particularly new leaders, that feels risky and almost counter-intuitive. It's not.
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