Even the most plugged-in leaders get it wrong sometimes. This fact was driven home to me the other day as I listened in on a phone conference led by a regional manager named Pete who manages a group of customer service teams spread across the northern half of the United States. My purpose in joining the…
Leadership
Following. It’s the New Leadership
If you find yourself still thinking about a three-minute video clip six days after you first saw it, chances are it had a pretty powerful message. That’s definitely the case for me as I reflect on the hilarious, but insightful video clip shown at the TEDx Grand Rapids event last week. The video features Derek…
New Partnership – SmartBrief on Leadership and The Lead Change Group
Here’s an excellent leadership resource for you: the SmartBrief on Leadership blog. It’s curated by SmartBrief, which is a media company that aggregates the top news from a variety of industries. You can receive a daily digest via email on industry topics of your choosing. For example I subscribe to their Leadership and Workplace editions. It’s…
8 Ways for CEOs to Tap Their Insiders
The concept of MBWA still has legs. Here’s how to capitalize on it. How much time should a CEO spend interacting with company employees versus external partners? More than you might think, according to research conducted by the Harvard Business School faculty. There is evidence interacting with “insiders” (employees and their board of directors) is…
Safe at Home – Watch Your Words
Dwane Lay who blogs at Lean HR is hosting a unique HR Carnival this week. He’s asked all carnival contributors to write a post with the same title: “Safe at Home.” We’re to write about what that title means to us personally and publish it today. The carnival featuring all submissions with this title will…