| By Stephanie Vozza, www.fastcompany.com | Few people like meetings, and that’s probably because they’re increasingly overtaking the workday. Over the past 50 years meetings have grown from less than 10 hours a week to nearly 23 hours, not including impromptu gatherings, Harvard Business Review reports. That’s more than half of our workweek. “Meetings may seem too frustrating and […]
Are You An Authentic Leader?
| By Ann Latham, www.forbes.com | I have always thought of myself as an active person. Hiking, skiing, ice hockey, ping pong, tennis, wilderness canoeing – you name it and I was game. From my tiny years when playing tackle football meant throwing myself around someone’s legs and hanging on as I was dragged the length of […]
Want to Create an Elite Company Culture? Measure These 5 Things
| By John Eades, www.inc.com | The data is in. Companies that have elite cultures outperform those who don’t. Take Chick-fil-A for example. The company is on pace to become the nation’s third-largest fast food restaurant by 2020. The company generates more revenue per restaurant than any other fast-food chain in the US, and it’s only open six days a week. […]
8 Easy Steps To A Healthier Workplace Culture
| By William Vanderbloemen, www.forbes.com | Culture isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the key to changing your workplace into a place people want to be and not a place people hate. What would it be like to have a job where team members celebrated the workplace, rather than just tolerating it? It can happen, and it’s not […]
How to Build (and Rebuild) Trust
Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it’s broken? In an eye-opening talk, Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei gives a crash course in trust: how to build it, maintain it and rebuild it — something she worked on during a recent stint at Uber. “If we can […]
How to Run a Meeting Without Talking Too Much
| By Art Markman, hbr.org | Have you ever left a meeting feeling that you dominated the whole thing — and not in a good way? You talked a lot, and in the end, you felt that nobody else had enough time to speak. This is a bad dynamic for several reasons. People don’t want to attend […]
The Six Pitfalls of Leadership
| leadershipfreak.blog | The pitfalls of leadership spring from within. Dangers that emerge from within are more perilous than dangers that attack from without. The Six Pitfalls of Leadership: #1. Perceived knowledge. “Those who think they know, don’t.” DeBono We feel like we know because we’re ignorant of what we don’t know. In other words, […]
Too Much Charisma Is Bad for Leadership
| By Psychology Today, www.psychologytoday.com | The word charisma is a blanket term for a set of behaviors or traits a person has that make them engaging and cause others to want to listen to them and follow them. It is hard to be a good leader without some degree of charisma. Great leaders inspire us to be better […]