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Kim Jong-il & Vaclav Havel die to very different world reactions, one leader will be missed, the other leaves a power vacuum. This effect is not limited to world leaders. It is often seen in organizations as well. Managers’ authority comes not from within, due to character and personality, but from without, from their...
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This post is by Donna Hicks, an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and author of “Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict.” She speaks of the importance of treating people with dignity and also, of recognizing when someone’s dignity has been injured. Then she describes the...
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Dave Mastovich writes that ambiguity on the part of a manager in assigning work will lead to mediocre results from the employees. He then continues to give some tips both to employees (repeat and confirm the task), and the manager (don’t just eMail, meet with the employee, be specific). Which is fine for starters, and...
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“Language creates reality”: the way we talk says more about us and ‘our world’ than we think. On the one hand what we talk about shows where our focus is, what are our interests and concerns are, where we place our intentions and attention. On the other hand, HOW we talk about these things...
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In Daniel Pink’s newest book Drive the underlying message is that a leader can provide a motivating environment but can’t motivate their employees; … as more and more studies show, the best motivation is intrinsic and not some form of extrinsic (pavlovian?) system of rewards. This article only quickly mentions the 3 intrinsic forms...
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Measuring How We Do Business – Huffington Post Stakeholders also want to know how our organization behaves in all of its relationships, how our company creates the products and services they deliver, how profits can be generated in a sustainable manner… Very interesting piece in Huffington Post using central points of the film ‘Moneyball’...
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The choice to which Dan Ariely is refers is the choice of how beggars effectively approach their potential patrons. He writes about a quick experiment which showed that, when asking total strangers for money, what worked best was a very personal approach, looking people in the eye or even holding their hands out, to either shake...
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Manager of this, vice president of that — yawn. A maker of business cards spots a spate of colorful monikers like Sales Ninja, Web Kahuna, and Head Cheese. Recently, I spent some time on some of the career networks reading colleagues profiles. It was absolutely fascinating to see the number of Vice Presidents our...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business Semco is a Brazilian conglomerate that specializes in complex technologies and services like manufacturing liquids. It is a flourishing enterprise. What makes Semco interesting is the total lack of conventional ‘top-down’ management. While most people are fascinated by the fact that the employees set their own salaries, I find the...
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Via Scoop.it – Intuitive Business Instead of showing appreciation exclusively during the holidays, some businesses are building it into their day-to-day and reaping business benefits on account of it. …. and it is working. Kristina Bouweiri owns Reston Limousine in Washington D.C. and began hosting Business Lunches for the administrative assistants (who book the...
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The way we work isn't really working; so I offer ideas for a postmodern approach based on many years as leader, manager and coach.
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