Nice Boss, Tough Boss: A Fairy Tale
Fairy tale mindsets create a powerful lens through which we view leadership. Do you let them affect how you act as a leader? If so, you may live LESS happily-ever-after.
What Motivates Jane? (a.k.a. The Telepathy Game)
Each day well-meaning managers across Corporate America play The Telepathy Game. In the absence of hard data on what motivates Jane — and with no ability to crawl inside her heart and mind to find out first-hand — a manager often defaults to ineffective and expensive guesswork. How can you find out what REALLY matters to Jane?
Why Every Manager Needs Bad News
To maximize leadership success you MUST know not just the good – but also the bad and the ugly. If you don’t cultivate the art of collecting sentiments that can be hard to hear, you’ll pay a big price. So how do you get people to open up and share their frustrations or criticisms?