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13 Thoughts for Discouraged Leaders
It ain’t all rainbows and unicorns. After the YouTube clip ends, after the conference is over, after the teambuilding session–there’s this other thing that happens. Real life leadership. And it’s...
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4 Components of a Constructive Culture
A constructive culture is one within which people are encouraged to collaborate and connect with others, as well as approach their work, in ways that are conducive to them meeting their higher-order...
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5 Pieces of Passive Organizational Culture
The primary purpose of employees in a passive culture is to please the people to whom they report so as to protect their position from any potential peril. (sorry–did it again, didn’t I…) Employees...
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8 Advantages of Introverts
In this post, we talked about how introverts sometimes get a bad rap, particularly in the workplace. I think we should take it a step further though. I think a strong case can be made that not only is...
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6 Things Great Teammates Say
Human and team dynamics are complex, but not necessarily all that complicated sometimes. Building a positive team and organizational environment isn’t like decoding the Rosetta Stone. Much of it boils...
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9 Leadership Mistakes That Kill Your Team
Humans are imperfect, yes? So it stands to reason that leaders, unless of course they’re not human, are also imperfect. We’ve all got our own version of imperfect too, don’t we? We’re each uniquely...
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17 Questions Leaders Can Ask
What’s your position on unicorns? That Socrates guy was onto something with that crazy method of his, though what you’ll see in this post isn’t nearly as eloquent. Getting to know our teams is an...
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5 Characteristics of a Cutthroat Culture
“He exemplifies everything our culture is about. He models our core values; heck, he literally wrote the book on ‘em. This won’t come as a surprise to any of you, so without further adieu, this year’s...
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7 Hindrances to Team Happiness
Happiness. It’s this abstract thing that most people spend their whole lives looking for, but in organizations we tend to only pay attention to it when it may result in some sort of tangible...
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7 Reasons Teams Can’t Just Get Over It
Yesterday we looked briefly at employees — humans — working through change, as well as the notion that they could “just get over it.” Here are a few of the reasons I’m just not sure it’s reasonable to...
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Should Happens (Thanks, Josh)
You can blend in, or you can be OK with being different. It’s pretty difficult to have it both ways. Not that people and organizations won’t try. It’s understandable too. Lots of folks are dying to...
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7 Ways Transformational Leaders Are Different
Some leaders are…different. They have this certain something that resonates with us, and that certain something may be hard to describe and will likely vary from person to person. They’re not perfect,...
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5 Things We Can Learn about Leadership from Siri
Apple’s virtual assistant Siri was designed to learn and get more sophisticated over time. The evolution in Siri’s capability and the increase in value she brings happen as users build a history with...
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5 Leadership Lies
Recently I was speaking with a Gen Y professional on the phone during a sort of coaching conversation when the following took place. “I want to be a leader, but I keep tripping myself up,” he said,...
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Working Out and “Fixing” Culture
I’ve seen and heard it time and again. “We’re going to fix our culture.” Or, “For the next six months we’re going to focus on our people.” Or, “I hope we can get our morale issue under control so we...
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5 Reasons our Leadership Planning Session Rocked
The exec team I’m privileged to work with had its strategic planning session over the past few days. Aside from fighting a stupid migraine both days, I thought it was a cool experience. Sean McDonald...
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The Bottom Line Isn’t the Bottom Line
Some of the world’s foremost intellects have told us by way of their arts and mediums that money is the end all of this existence of ours. And even those who might argue that and say that it’s not the...
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4 Hints to Help Your Team Pick More Fights
The whole idea of conflict is just weird. None of us really likes having to engage in it, yet most of us probably begrudgingly admit the necessity for it in business and team environments. Whether...
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6 Non-Creative Thoughts on Creativity
As cliché a topic as it may be, creativity, and especially creativity within organizational settings, fascinates me. In some ways, I think it fascinates a lot of people though. We spend oodles of time...
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8 Signs You May Be a Meddling Manager
8 Signs you may be a meddling manager (or person, for that matter): 1. It’s not enough that people answer you one time. You have this need to know everything, even if you tell yourself and others you...
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