Management - Leadership

These were recent headlines that came across my news feed: Would You Give Staff a Three-Day Weekend? Global Retailer Uniqlo is Giving it a Go Facebook Co-

Amazon, like many successful companies has a strong culture. It’s not for everyone. Does it work? Of course it does. How do I know even though I don’t work there and have never talked to anyone who does? Simple: The company is successful and people are lined up to work there. Does everyone want to work there? Of course not. Does the writer of the article in the New York Times? I doubt it. He found people who had worked there and didn’t like it, so they talked about how it is, or at least how they want people to perceive that it is.

Dear Madeleine, I am senior manager for my firm with a large team reporting to me. I have been doing what I do for a long time and I am very good at it, as I have been told repeatedly. A lot of wha...

Vision without execution is a bunch of empty promises. Execution without vision is more of the same. Vision plus execution is true leadership.

According to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau figures, Gen Y has officially edged out Gen X in 2015 to nab the largest share of the w

Dear Madeleine, Is it wrong to let someone go if they just aren’t performing?  I have an employee that I originally hired because he seemed to have real promise. I like him a lot as a person, but h...

When other companies are moving ahead and yours isn’t, it creates a gap that impacts your employees’ perceived value of your company. “The number of job transitions is only increasing, so high pote...

Samantha Dwinell, vice president of talent management at Texas Instruments, shares why managers need to be more transparent with their employees.

Leaders make a lot of promises. They promise high-quality products and experiences to customers, careers that offer opportunity and purpose to employees, am

In Anna Karenina, Russian author Leo Tolstoy famously wrote “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The same coul

Dear Madeleine, I have an excellent employee who has been working for me for over three years. She has always had a good attitude and she meets her deadlines, turns out reliable work product, and g...

On a daily basis, we are all faced with making yes or no decisions that lead to certain consequences. With today’s many distractions and demands, it is easy to react quickly without first thinking ...

The ability to make organizational decisions in a timely manner can be a genuine competitive advantage.

The people who will do the work can start the work sooner.
The people who would do the additional study can free up time spent seeking, processing, and communicating even more data — and start working on the important thing instead.
The decision makers don’t need to wait for more information. They too can do better, new work, right now.