5 Steps to Lead Effectively When the Ding Hits the Fan!

Here’s a simple fact: anyone can seem like a great leader when everything goes perfectly right. If you have a great team of people, and everyone does what they are supposed to, and the market conditions stay favorable, and all of your customers are happy, and all of your vendors do what they are supposed [...]

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Attention Managers: Stop Wasting Your Employees’ Time!

Being a productive leader isn’t just about maximizing your productivity. It’s also about helping your team stay productive. Years ago, back when I still had a corporate job as an IT programmer, I was working on a large project that involved many different departments. Each department had their own specific task that had very little [...]

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Five Habits of Highly Horrible Bosses

I have a good friend who has a horrible boss. Horrible. Just…awful. Every time she tells me about something he does at work, I think to myself, “How do people like this exist in the world, much less rise to positions of power?” After her last story, I thought to myself, “Is he even remotely [...]

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Monday Motivation: The #1 Top Motivating Factor…

Quick question: What motivates people more, the carrot or the stick? Turns out, the answer is neither. My friend Bill O’Hanlon pointed me to an article on the Harvard Business Review (HBR) on What Really Motivates Workers The article points to one survey and one study: Survey: HBR asked “600 managers from dozens of companies [...]

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Crunch Time Leadership

How do you respond to life’s big moments? Are you a “crunch time” player who wants the ball, or someone who would prefer to not be in that position? Let’s take a look and find out… I love basketball. I also love good funny writing with pop culture references. As such, Bill Simmons Book of [...]

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