Bringing Back Professional Courtesy
The issue of professional courtesy (or seeming lack thereof) came up at a recent networking group meeting. With permission, I’m sharing the spontaneous suggestion list we generated, including ideas for live and social media settings. Please add to the list and let’s all strive to put these into practice in real-time. At Least 15 Ideas to Help Bring Professional Courtesy Back:
The Cruel, Bitter and Crushing Taste of Dump-Truck Feedback
Right after avoiding it, the most commonly employed managerial strategy for dealing with feedback is, delaying it. The first approach is poor form… the latter approach is cruel.
Leading in the Matrix-7 Ideas to Cultivate the Right Skills
If speed, adaptability, learning…and the need to innovate are more than buzzwords and corporate clichés, but in fact are the requirements for success in this fast-moving world, then building cultures, teams and people capable of succeeding in the matrix must be a priority.
Leadership Caffeine™-For a Change, Do Something Unconventionally Unorthodox
We tend to love our life and work routines. They are comfortable and comforting. And while there’s a certain amount of routine that’s inherent in successfully running any organization, the best leaders seek and create opportunities to breakaway from the mind-numbing, sense-dulling pursuit of routine. Here are 5 ideas to stimulate your own-thinking on breaking the routine with your team:
Web Construction Update
I'm erring on the side of sharing a little more rather than a little less on some of the work going on here. A few days ago, I highlighted upcoming changes. Last night, the new [...]
Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast #14-Bob Frisch on Who’s In the Room?
Bob Frisch is one smart professional, with some great guidance for senior managers and CEO's in his new book: "Who's In the Room? How Great Leaders Structure and Manage the Teams Around Them." His lifetime experience as a strategy consultant working with senior management teams comes through loud and clear as he shares some fairly blunt and important perspectives on how decisions at the top are really made.
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