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Can You Be Happy at Work When You’re in Charge?

Leadership and managerial responsibility can be exciting, but being in charge can be draining, worrisome, and even frightening at times. So how can you stay on the upside to ensure successful performance for yourself and... Continue reading

When “Follow the Leader” Is Bad for the Team

Senior executives usually work at having strong relationships with their team members -- but surprisingly often, they don’t focus as strongly on their relationship with their team as a whole. What’s even more curious is... Continue reading

Signs of Socially Intelligent Life: Getting the Best from a Group

Seeking the “wisdom of crowds” is quite popular right now, and I’ve always believed in scanning the room to get the “sense of the group.” I’m also a big proponent of the value of teamwork... Continue reading

Q&A About Talking Side by Side

How to Get Your Point Across Without Poking a Hole in Anyone, must have struck a nerve. Readers emailed me more questions: Q: What if you prefer to talk face to face because you can... Continue reading

Dirty Pots as a Management Metaphor

I like the idea of hosting dinner parties, weekend potlucks, veritable swapmeets of desserts. I enjoy the initial planning, reviewing cookbooks and recipes ripped from magazines, deciding which dishes will go well with which. Am... Continue reading

Promising Change

En route to a client for a couple of days of leadership and team development, the weather was simultaneously fierce and changeable as forecast. Amid dark thunderclouds and pelting rain were startling outbreaks of sun... Continue reading

What Happens When Management Won’t Change?

It was almost like watching a train wreck of two separate cultures, or two sets of generational expectations. One was eager and striving, the other, dictatorial and autocratic, although cloaked in a sort of benevolent... Continue reading

Short Term Management vs. Long Term Leadership

I watched a woman wrestle with a printer the other day. Unfortunately, the printer was winning. No surprise. The toothpick she had been using as a shim to hold the printer cover in place would... Continue reading

What’s Your Catchphrase?

I was working with the president of a financial services company the other day. Our conversation moved quickly and easily over multiple, diverse topics, including a couple of new ways to motivate his sales force,... Continue reading

Give the Minimum, Get the Minimum

So many organizations have cut back their staff levels, their benefits, perks, politesse during the last couple of years. As some aspects of business pick up, some employers are starting to give small wage increases,... Continue reading

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