Creative Insights: 4 Ways to Encourage More Ideas
As a manager, how can you encourage creative insights? As I mentioned in my previous post, managers improve their peoples’ performance by reducing errors, but
As a manager, how can you encourage creative insights? As I mentioned in my previous post, managers improve their peoples’ performance by reducing errors, but
Like most things, leadership questions start in childhood. There was a study done in the UK that shows 4-year-old girls ask their mothers an average
Psychologists have not yet determined why people in 50+ industrialized nations experience midlife crises. It’s certainly a major reason why people hire executive coaches. “What’s
I’m curious about business decision processes and I’ve been thinking about how even smart leaders can make the wrong choices. For one thing, I’ve been
Leaders cannot be adequately described by lists of traits or characteristics. Academics have struggled with this for years. Then, in 2003, Bill George’s book, Authentic
In the work I do coaching leaders, everyone purports to have high leadership trust with stakeholders. Surveys, however, show otherwise. (See my previous post here.)
As a leader, you need to imbue your words, actions and stories with passion and authenticity. Emotional expressiveness is a matter of choice of words.
In this series of posts on leadership communications, I’ve been sharing the seven power cues from author Nick Morgan in Power Cues: The Subtle Science
Whether you’re giving difficult feedback to an employee, approaching your supervisor with a problem, or having an uncomfortable conversation with a peer — handling difficult
Imagine a workplace where people are scared to voice their opinions, where the fear of failure is so intense it paralyzes action. Such a work
The term “glass ceiling” evokes an image of an invisible, yet unbreakable, barrier that prevents women from advancing to higher levels of leadership, especially in
The world of quantum physics with its electrons, quarks, and uncertainty principles may seem far removed from the art of leadership. However, the quantum world