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Leadership

Leaderhip Carnival: Venetian Style

February 8, 2010

  If your job didn’t require it, would you want to write a blog with your co-workers? Fortunately, the team at Talented Apps answer is “yes!” This month’s Leadership Carnival is hosted by a “face” that’s new to me . . .or make that several faces: the folks at the Talented Apps blog. The Talented [...]

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Stepping Into the Abyss

January 26, 2010

It’s great when a fellow blogger inspires me to get revved up on a topic. And so it is with Mary Jo Asmus’ series on the role that employees should play in helping their leaders improve.  Last week, in response to her post “Bad Manager or Flawed Human?” the discussion on her blog was lively.  [...]

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Leadership’s Ring of Fire

January 26, 2010

As part of an ongoing series on Positive Office Politics, Mike Henry from the Lead Change Group writes a thought-provoking essay on the ties that sincerity and authenticity have to building trust.  Need to get caught up on the series?  Start at the beginning with Jane Perdue’s blog Life, Love and Leadership. From there, check out my [...]

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Employees Can’t Get No Satisfaction

January 14, 2010

With a clumsy nod to the Rolling Stones’ classic tune, it appears to be true: since 1987, workers have become steadily less satisfied with their work.  This is according to research results released last week by The Conference Board.  What’s more, it’s not a generational thing: satisfaction is decreasing amongst all ages groups.  While the [...]

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Best of Leadership Carnival 2009

January 4, 2010

The end a decade provides a great opportunity for reflection and that’s just what Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog offers this month.  The January Leadership Carnival showcases fifty top leadership bloggers in a “Best of 2009” round up. This post includes access to incredibly diverse leadership thinking.  Topics include great coaching questions, building employee engagement, [...]

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Taking a Break

December 26, 2009

I was out in the stores early this morning snapping up some after-Christmas sale items. In what appears to be a developing theme with me, I overheard another conversation with Human Resources implications in the store this morning. (Blog series, perhaps? See my other HR eavesdropping observation here.) Overheard: Employee: “Do I really need to [...]

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The Card Playing CEO

December 20, 2009

Now, here’s something you don’t see every day:  a company CEO sitting in the firm’s break room playing cards with his frontline employees.  Or do you?  This is the question I’ve been pondering for awhile after I witnessed this exact scenario at a client’s headquarters a few weeks ago.  After making a few discreet inquiries [...]

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Wintry White Leadership Carnival

December 7, 2009

For those of us who live in the Snowbelt, this time of year brings mixed feelings.  Yes, it was fun for the kids to have a snow day last Friday. Yes, it was truly beautiful to decorate the Christmas tree whilst fluffy snowflakes drifted all around outside our cozy warm home on Saturday.  No, it [...]

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The Ambiguity Factor

December 3, 2009

When was the last time you heard an employee say “Wow, the implementation of that new program (system/process/idea) was smooth!” My guess is you’ve rarely (perhaps never?) heard that.  There are oodles of reasons why the launch of a new system goes awry— competing values, unclear objectives, unrealistic deadlines, budget constraints and so on.  Here’s [...]

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Praising Mastery

November 6, 2009

I’m reading the book The Power of Respect by Deborah Norville.  She cites a very interesting study from the journal Motivation and Emotion. In this study, a group of researchers from Reed College in Oregon studied whether one form of praise was more effective than another.  The researchers used two different types of praise: “mastery”, [...]

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