Using Your Power
Being a leader gives you power. And if you’ve read our previous post, you know the importance of not abusing that power.The fear of abusing power should not keep us from using it. It must be used and should be used – well.Power can be a strange thing to get a grip on. We may […]
(Ab)Using Your Power
Being a leader gives you power. Power over people’s lives, happiness, careers and successes. Power over investors return on investments and client’s satisfaction with what they receive. You have the right and the power to expand and create growth all around you by bringing out the best in each individual.But you also have the power […]
6 Great Manners for Great Managers
Some managers just have that “touch of class”, that hard to define, yet easy to recognize “je ne sais qoui”. “It”. When it comes to leading people, good style is a key to increasing trust, collaboration and motivation, yet not as common as one would hope. The good news is that it can be learned […]
The Power of Doing Things
Our legacy is defined by what we accomplish: the marks we make, the impressions on other’s lives and our achievements. It is not the number of strategy plans we launch or the visions we present. It is not the number of meetings we attend or the length of the strategy and planning seminars we participate […]
True Heroes Are the Ones You’ve Never Heard Of
In every culture, we celebrate our heroes and in modern workplaces, the CEO, Director, or other Senior Managers are our biggest heroes. We have magazines dedicated to them, front covers of them in suits, on a boat, out hunting or another situation that signals power, worship and heroism.What we tend to forget and hardly ever […]
Enjoy to Endure
In most work places, January is a tough month. All the achievements of the past year, which we worked so hard to obtain, are behind us and soon forgotten. In the new year, we need a first quarter with good results, trend curves going up rather than down, and a motivating kick-off meeting with your […]
Celebrate 2017!
It’s the end of the year, the time when managers are making plans for the new year, plans around budgets and goals. Kick-off meetings, sales conferences and strategy sessions are already planned for the first couple of weeks in January. We barely pause to review how much we’ve accomplished this year as we hurry to […]
Busy Being Busy?
Maybe it is not a coincidence that the words ”busyness” and ”business” are so close. If your working day is marathon length yet done in full sprint, you may not stop to consider if you are being productive or just running in a hamster wheel along with everyone else. Could you be so busy and […]
Employing a Dead Horse?
Sometimes you have that person on your team who isn’t really up to speed. Who isn’t living up to your expectations and constantly coming short. He/she knows it, the colleagues know it and deep down inside you know it too. Unfortunately, his/her performance is not zero. It is more a grey zone of good and […]
Ironman for Leader?
The current generation of CEOs, executives and senior managers have to be super humans. On top of a 60+ work week and a happy and harmonious family life they also need to prove themselves to the pack by doing extreme sport to show they are the right alpha male/female to lead. And which better way […]
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