This is second of two parts on gender diversity in leadership positions. Today’s article offers some steps organizations can take to develop future … Read more
Women May Be Better Leaders Than Men, So Why Aren’t There More?
This is first of two parts on gender diversity in leadership positions. Today’s article discusses the current lack of women leaders, the reasons why, … Read more
Poor Admin is Costing You $4,600 Per Employee
The Workforce Institute at Kronos, where I am a member of the board, has an eye-opening report on the cost of wasted time at work. The $687 Billion … Read more
Success in the Global Workplace Takes Understanding the Culture
An engineering manager I’ll call Geoff was sent to his company’s Mexican subsidiary to direct a team of engineers. His job was to get a production line up … Read more
Why Aren’t You Driving the People Strategy?
As captain of the organization, your role is to make bets on strategy as well as bigger bets on the people to carry out that strategy. This is the … Read more
4 Habits of Highly Dysfunctional Teams
The following is adapted from the authors’ new book, Accelerating Performance: How Organizations Can Mobilize, Execute, and Transform with Agility … Read more
Are You Making a Decision Or Justifying One?
Your brain is a powerful instrument. Ask it for reasons why you should hire someone and it will respond with answers like: She’s smart. He made a great … Read more
10 Success Tips For Today’s Digital Age Companies
Note: This is part two of a two part series on what’s required for companies to be successful in the digital age. Part one is here. The rules for … Read more
The New Rules For Business Success In the Digital Age
Note: This is part one of a two part series on what’s required of successful leadership in the digital age. Part two posts tomorrow. Leadership of … Read more
HR Roundtable: How HR Can Encourage Encouragement
We decided to start the HR Roundtable (of Cincinnati) off in 2017 on a positive note. The topic was “Encouragement At Work” and we were going to explore … Read more