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Dealing With An Overly Positive Or Negative Employee
Maximize Their “Skills” and Encourage Flexibility Working With Or Managing The Overly Positive Or Overly Negative Employee “Empty Glass Is Full” employees, and the opposite, Full Glass Is Empty” empty employees can drive their co-workers and managers absolutely around the…
Understanding Leadership Ideologies and Models
Best Leadership Strategies Are Pragmatic Rather Than Based On Ideology If you want to learn more about leadership, or become a better leader, you have a wide range of leadership models, theories, and “expert opinions” to draw upon. That’s both…
The ONE Thing, And The ONLY Thing We Know For Sure About Leadership Effectiveness
After hundreds of years, research, books, we know remarkably little about what effective leadership is about There are dozens, if not hundreds of leadership models that “explain” what constitutes effective leadership. And hundreds of books. However, if we step back…
The Importance of Leadership In Managing Change
Summary: Leadership is important in most aspects of organizational health, but it’s even more important when it comes to a) creating and implementing planned change, or b) reacting to pressure for change that comes from sources external sources. In this…
Leadership – How Planning Transforms Into Doing
Summary: If you think of an organization as a ship, the “leader” is responsible for planning out the destination of the trip. However, no matter how good a leader is in creating strategy and planning, if the strategies and plans don’t…
The Responsive Manager/Leader
Summary: A few years ago, when I was working on a book on communication, it struck me that responsiveness — the ability to portray to others that you are both listening and responding to their words, meanings, intent, etc, is a…
