The Manager’s Job – Henry Mintzberg
Some time ago I subscribed to Harvard Business Review (for the umpteenth time), just to get a collection of articles called Leadership Insights. The first in the collection is a reprint of Henry...
View ArticleAre leaders born or made?
Research from the Center for Creative Leadership attempted to answer the question of whether leaders are born or made. You can read the research here. While 52% of the respondents believe that leaders...
View ArticleAuthentic Leadership Development – A Research Study
Trust academics to study everything. You might have read last week’s rant on whether leaders are born or made. Sure enough, some very distinguished academics attempted to use research to figure this...
View ArticleHow leaders kill meaning at work
McKinsey has done some interesting research and written a great article on how leaders kill meaning at work. I had a conversation recently with a friend who is a recruiter and we were discussing (not...
View ArticleEmployee Engagement
Are you really engaged in your job? Chances are good that you aren’t. Well, Towers Watson just released Their 2012 Global Workforce Study. According to the study, 65% of you are not highly engaged at...
View ArticleFocus on Strengths
While Sam Walton was a great believer in identifying weaknesses, he didn’t focus on them. Yesterday’s blog was not meant to advocate a focus on weaknesses, just to say that ignoring them is not...
View ArticleAre your co-workers just good enough?
It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you’re surrounded by turkeys. Do you have a passion for quality, in product, process, or people? If you don’t then why not? Is it because you don’t really care...
View ArticleWhatever
There’s a great interview of Seth Godin on Copyblogger. Worth a read, I’m still laughing from reading it. The best line was when Seth was asked whether he writes every day. His response: “Do you talk...
View ArticleFlow
Can you remeber a time when you were highly productive and gained enourmous satisfaction from work, when you had seemingly limitless amounts of energy? Well if you’ve ever been there, what you were...
View ArticleYour Next Reading Assignment
By now you should have finished reading yesterday’s book, How to Win Friends and Influence People. If you haven’t finished yet then you’re going to get behind in these reading assignments so you better...
View ArticleYour Reading List – Part 3
I would be remiss if I did not include at least one Peter Drucker book in your reading list. For today’s book I have reached back into the depths of time and recommended The Practice of Management...
View ArticleLast Book Assignment (For a While)
The end of a short week is here and I have one last book for you to read. (You must be glad this week wasn’t a day longer as you would have had one more book.) I realize the last [...]
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