Management - Leadership

As human beings, we are born with an interest in using our imagination and making the world better.

Do you make it a habit to notice what others around you do?
Do you see the random acts of kindness performed by others? If so, do you praise them for it?

The other day, someone asked me about the last time my ethics had been tested at work and how I reacted.
I wasn’t sure how to respond. It’s a good question, and I wanted to answer it.

A constant stream of interruptions all day long can make it hard to get much actual work done. But it's possible to take your time back.

Ed Catmull is a co-founder and the longtime head of Pixar Animation Studios, which struggled for 10 years from its founding in 1986 until the runaway success in 1995 of its first feature film, Toy Story.

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” — William Shakespeare, British playwright and poet Let’s face it: business life won’t be getting any easier or slower or less complicated (unless human nature and civilization undergo...

Mercer periodically puts out terrific infographics summarizing research around a particular topic. The most recent is “People Issues Affect M&A Transactions More Than Ever” (see it below or click through here).

Words can clarify or confuse.
A favorite pastime of mine is to watch politicians or corporate CEOs squirm when asked straightforward questions on sensitive issues.
Accountability can be tough; the language of leadership is not for the faint-hearted.

“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” — Thomas Sowell, economist and social theorist.

Ellen Ochoa is a former astronaut and the first Hispanic women to go into space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1993.

How much time does your organization squander? My colleagues and I gathered data about time use at one large company and found that people there spent 300,000 hours a year just supporting the weekly executive committee meeting.

Imagine you’re a bright, inquisitive person working for a company with long-established policies and work processes in place (or maybe you don’t have to).

When something seems too good to be true, it usually is. And management techniques, practices, and strategies are no different.

“I’ll take 50 percent efficiency to get 100 percent loyalty.” — Samuel Goldwyn, American movie mogul.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, loyalty is as loyalty does.

Can your team make a decision?
I was recently thinking about a moment in my career that taught me several things about team decision making.
It was many years ago in my staff meeting.

“Nearly 75% of organizations have a recognition program (despite the fact that only 58% of employees think that their organizations have recognition programs).” (Bersin by Deloitte, The State of Employee Recognition, 2012) Career opportunities,...