Tag Archives: leadership
What Dwight D. Eisenhower Said About Leadership
“Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
What if you had no memory?
In some ways, that’s sounds great; you could forget the bad dates, the mistakes you kept making, the people you’d REALLY like to banish, and those horrid pictures from when you were a teen. However, Alzheimer’s does not just take away what you’d like to forget but instead tears you from loved ones, from hard-earned [...]
Five Steps for Turning the Tables on the Boss and Turning the Light on You!
National Boss’s Day is October 16th, an international holiday established in 1958 by a secretary for State Farm Insurance Company. Traditionally a day for employees to thank their boss for being kind and fair throughout the year, it was originally conceived as an effort to improve the relationship between employees and their supervisors. There probably [...]
Part Two: Quit and Stay? 7 Factors to Increase Employee Satisfaction by Joe Folkman
The first 3 Factors were consistent values, long-term focus, and local leadership. The last 4 factors are: 4. Continuous Communications. People often tend to communicate less during bad times when they need communication even more. This company increased its efforts to communicate and share important information. If there was no good news to share, they would share the [...]
Quit and Stay? 7 Factors to Increase Employee Satisfaction by Joe Folkman
Two years ago when employees became dissatisfied with their organization they would quit and get another job. Today, with emplacement opportunities very low and unemployment extremely high, very few people opt to quit and leave. Their option is to quit and stay. In the last year, overall job satisfaction in the U.S. has declined significantly. [...]
Steve Jobs taught us about REAL jobs for leaders
Walk into an Apple store. It doesn’t matter whether you talk to an Apple genius, a store clerk, or a trainer. Everyone in that store has an excitement about the products and what they can do. Steve Jobs carried that excitement. As a leader, he took great delight in the smallest detail whether it was [...]
Invisible Architecture™ is the Key to Leadership
Think of all the money spent on designing office buildings, moving cubicles around, consolidating locations. Capital expenditures take a big budget chunk. But what if you literally had the cart before the horse. What if you’re moving people, materials, and merchandise but have forgotten to move what really matters: the human spirit—invisible to the human [...]
Top 40 Bonehead Boss Stories
Geoffrey James, Sales Machine, writes about bonehead bosses on BNet just in time for National Bosses Day on October 16th. Some of the stories are ones you might already know but a few of them were new to me. My favorite is number six when a VP order employees to take a lie detector test [...]
Is Leadership A “Social Process”?
Four well-known, academic thinkers and writers on leadership recently released a new book, “Exploring Leadership” (Oxford University Press). Although the book leaves many question unanswered and tends to get stuck in academic debates, I find myself intrigued by the authors insistence that leadership is a “social process”. By their definition, leadership exists in the interactions [...]