In a blog post titled “C is for Silly: The New C-Suite Titles” Forbes.com blogger Jenna Goudreau explores the proliferation of titles elevating people to “Chief” or “C-level” status. The central premise of her piece was to question the relevance of so-called “vanity” titles like Chief Internal Evangelist or Chief Listener. In Goudreau’s post, marketing » Read More
The underlying belief of exhortation is that people simply are not giving it their all, and so management’s job is to entice and encourage people to do a better job than they previously have. The great search for ways to engage employees involves many well-intended but misguided approaches. Exhortation. Management by objectives. Tools and techniques. » Read More
Will Lukang, PMP, CSM, CLDC In 2000, I left my job at a big five accounting firm because I was frustrated that my career was going nowhere. Because I was eager to move on, I took an opportunity to go back and work as a consultant. Two years earlier, I had quit a consulting » Read More
This weeks SmartBlog for Leadership post is by Shawn Murphy, president of Achieved Strategies and a learning and organizational development consultant. In his article, “4 Choice Leadership Acts for 2012,” Shawn discusses that you have the opportunity for a new start, to positively influence and make where we work better. Read about his 4 choice » Read More
Many authors have written about people management, project management or corporate culture as separate topics. But a new book by Ben Snyder ties together all three subjects and paints a clear picture of how they interact to nurture (or damage) employee engagement and organizational performance. Read this review, find the book and set fire to the status quo.
The Lead Change Group is a global, virtual community dedicated to instigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. This summer Lead Change Tulsa hosted a panel discussion about Defining Moments in Leadership. As we engaged with the panelists and the audience, we heard stories about individual choices and workplaces challenges, stories that tested integrity, stories about tough » Read More
This statistic stopped me cold: 60% of the participants in a 2009 international study trusted a stranger more than they trusted their boss. Yikes, how sad. In doing a quick mental tally of bosses I’ve had, unfortunately this figure didn’t seem too far off my experience. Many of those bosses didn’t grasp that in times » Read More
Our own Instigator, Jane Perdue (@thehrgoddess) has a “hack” posted over at Gary Hamel’s Management Information Exchange titled Square Pegs, Sacred Cows and Starting Over with Leadership that you should check out. Jane has some radical ideas about how to transform some the workplace by overturning some generally accepted practices and sacred cows in modern » Read More
Today we are faced with the pre-eminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945 Your emotions and actions impact those you lead. Research indicates that a ten percent increase in a perception of a leader who creates a positive emotional work climate results » Read More
Your corporate culture is your soil. It’s where your employees grow or wither. Are you cultivating it? Or are you washing it away in your quest to maximize this year’s profits?
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