What’s the best time to ask your boss for a raise, or your CEO to fund an initiative that’s critically important to you? Early morning. At least that’s what I’m deducing having read, “Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?” by John Tierney in the New York Times. The article looks at a study of prisoner […]
In Leadership Chat this week we focused on a variety of challenges that leaders face when it comes to promoting individuals on their teams. I asked the following question, Realistic or not to think leaders will work to help entire team be highly successful in each indiv role & be promotable? #LeadershipChat and was surprised the […]
You may have seen a few days ago that there was a debate in the media about whether or not agents involved in the ATF “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking investigation had been “promoted out” of their former roles. I won’t pretend to know enough about the facts of the situation to comment on this particular case, […]
I was watching a financial show on TV recently and heard a commentator discuss a study that showed if you’d invested $1 in the stock market roughly 50 years ago, it would be worth a bit more that $13 today. Your return would have been higher than inflation. But if you’d invested that same $1 and taken […]
This week on Leadership Chat author Becky Carroll will be talking about leadership lessons from her new book, “The Hidden Power of Your Customers.” Her book is all about how critically important it is for us as leaders to focus on our existing customers, and to nurture relationships with existing customers to create loyal brand evangelists. […]
Tuesday night in Leadership Chat as we talked about how great leaders affect work-life balance, we touched on the concept of “lack.” A fear of lack (lack of money, lack of financial independence or wealth, lack of confidence in our companies, our futures and our children’s futures) is making it hard for many leaders to sleep these […]
A wonderful, new opportunity for those of you interested in the Magnetic Leadership Program offered by ProfitAbility Business Simulations has just been announced – and I wanted to share it with all of you! Molex, located in Lisle, IL just outside Chicago, had decided to sponsor the program at its headquarters. They have enough space […]
Last week on Leadership Chat we focused on how we, as leaders, can affect a move from Work Family Conflict to Work Life Balance. This week we shift our focus to the micro level and ask the question, “Do great leaders support work-life balance and, if so, how do they do it successfully?” I believe […]
I don’t see it, at least not clearly, even though I continue to try… It’s very difficult to see how people who subscribe to the views of the opposing political party actually view the world in the way they do. The political rhetoric during the last few weeks has made this clearer to me than ever before. And […]
It’s summertime. When I was growing up that meant playing outside all day while my “stay-at-home” mom kept an eye on me, my siblings, and the rest of the neighborhood kids as we played on our “Jungle Gym” in our backyard. When my dad got home at 6:00, dinner would be mostly prepared except for what was […]