These 5 factors will help you with the decision of filling a job by promoting an internal candidate or hiring someone from outside the company.
What Alan Turing teaches us about breaking paradigms to achieve breakthrough results
As leaders, we need to remember that innovation and creativity comes from those who break paradigms, think differently and take risks.
Be aware of 3 universal issues if your company is organized by business units
Addressing these three issues will help business units and your company as a whole be more effective in achieving operational and strategic goals.
Trump ignored Covid-19 brutal facts of reality, and the consequences have been severe
Adverse unintended consequences are the result of leaders refusing to face the brutal facts of reality. A case in point is the inaction by President Donald Trump during COVID-19.
Want to better communicate with your employees? Conduct town meetings
Town meetings are a great opportunity for management and employees to communicate with each other on a host of issues and learn from each other.
Tap into your employee’s sense of purpose
An important trait of effective leaders is to appeal to their followers’ sense of purpose to win their hearts and minds, so they are fully invested in the organization’s mission.
Missteps at Art Museum and Free Library provide cautionary tales about workplace culture
Two high-profile nonprofit organizations within Philadelphia faced damaging accusations by their employees. What could have been done to resolve the issues before they reached the point that damaged the reputations of these nonprofits?
When a policy is challenged, CEOs need a better response than, ‘Well, that’s just the way it is’
Employees occasionally question the need for certain policies that impede their work. CEOs need to listen and respond in the appropriate way – not with, “Well, that’s just the way it is.”
Earning employees’ trust leads to building a high-performance team
The most important characteristic of all organizations is the level of trust between the leaders and their employees, and among employees themselves.
Selling your ideas is the key to professional advancement
The ability to get others to buy into our ideas and initiatives and rally them to the cause is a primary skill of all leaders.
DACA immigrants are important to the economic competitiveness of the U.S.
Some immigrants or children of immigrants have had a transformational impact on the U.S. and on the world. These entrepreneurs have created millions of jobs, changed how we live and put the U.S. on the forefront of the information technology industry. We should remember and appreciate their contributions.
5 traits of effective leaders
I have written a number of articles about the traits of effective leaders. In this article, I share five traits that are important to me, based on my personal experience. Embracing these traits have allowed me to be a more effective leader.