How Can I Share My Experience Without Giving Advice?
Advice often backfires but leaders can still influence their team rephrasing the language they choose when they coach.
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Can Introverts Be Leaders?
Though 50% of the population is extroverted, 96% of managers and executives display extroverted personalities. This article examines why most companies are missing the boat with succession planning and promotions.
Management Time: A Game Of Hot Potato
Working too many hours as a manager? You're taking on too many hot potato's. It's time to give them back.
Why Do Catchers Make Great Managers?
A baseball catcher is the closest position to a manager in sports. In this article, I look at how the greatest catchers coach their pitchers to the next level.
How Do I Announce A Layoff To My Team?
The only thing worse than reducing your workforce is notifying people who felt they were safe. I examine an ugly example of a layoff gone wrong and three lessons learned from the experience.
How Do I Manage Through A Crisis? Lessons From A Financial Meltdown
History is our best teacher for how to proceed in a crisis. In this article, I examine my personal experience with a home builder during the credit crisis to demonstrate how leaders can act today.
What Are You Willing To Crawl Through For Success?
Andy Dufresne crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to. Five hundred yards, that’s the length of
Fortune Favors The Bold
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken.
Great Managers Are Not Afraid To Piss You Off
We recall our mentors with an abundance of positive memories. We associate achievement with their guidance, direction and attention. Whether they were teachers, coaches or managers, they cared enough to invest