Leadership & Mindset
Answering the most important leadership questions.
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“2500”] Image by Ludovic Hirlimann used under Creative Commons License [/caption] Leadership is as elusive a concept as leprechauns. Everyone fancies themselves a good leader and leadership is a fantastic buzz word to sell books or fill seminars but very few have provided real tangible implementable definitions. But before we talk about what leadership is, please talk about what it isn't True leadership is not Your senior executives may not be leader! Most employees mistakenly believe that their organizations most senior executives are the leaders.
Quote about education
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” — George Washington Carver
7 tips to make email more acceptable
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“900”] Image by Rene Schwietzke used under Creative Commons License [/caption] The only thing that saps productivity out of an organization more than meetings (Link) is email. Has email ever helped you become more productive? Email has outlived its usefulness and has become the ugly drunk uncle no one wants to acknowledge or deal with. Assuming you have to live with email in the workplace, here are 7 tips to help make it a little more bearable:
Quote about history
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
5 secrets for more efficient meetings
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“640”] Image by Nguyen Hung Vu used under Creative Commons License [/caption] Everyone loves meetings... Right? Of course you do. Nothing is more enjoyable than meeting 6 other people to go through a 120 slide powerpoint presentation in a far flung conference room. Fun ... Fun ... Fun ... Joking aside, meetings are a necessary evil in the business world so productivity junkies are always testing new strategies to make them more effective. After 20+ years of searching, the core tenets for efficient meetings can be boiled down to a measly 5 bullets and have the main title of "
Fostering entrepreneurship within your team
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“1000”] Image by Steven Depolo used under Creative Commons License [/caption] As we move away from very large monolithic style organizations, companies are trying to harness the energizing strategies of startups. One technique large companies are adopting is entrepreneurship within their organizations (what some people call intrapreneurship). What does the research say? The literature seems to support the belief that technology firms increasing their entrepreneurship (intrapreneurship) see increased firm performance ((Rauch et al., 2009 - LINK). Why? Because entrepreneurship allows a firm to quickly add new value thus improving the firms profitability.
A new manager's guide to success
[caption id="" align=“alignnone” width=“1431”] Image by Dawn (Willis) Manser used under Creative Commons License [/caption] I have been managing large complex globally distributed teams for over 15 years and many times forget how complicated and scary team management can be for a new comer. This article is an opportunity for me to take a step back and provide some tips to help first time people managers built better, stronger and higher performing teams. What is a team? Before we talk about strategy, let's ensure we are all working with the same definitions.
Quote about education
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes
Quote about improvement
Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement. - Shunryu Suzuki
Quote about continuous improvement
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.- Kim Collins