People Are Humans

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Kris Krueger

Suffice to say that moving into a management role is sometimes the only way organizations can reward people who are performing well at the individual level.  What that means is that often times, people who were good at and enjoyed their individual level role are asked to move into a management role that requires much [...]

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To Share or Not to Share – What is the Question?

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Kris Krueger

The higher up you rise in an organization, the more likely you are to be given access to information that is not commonly known to everyone else in the organization.  This can present a dilemma. What do you share and what don’t you share? It’s not as if people don’t know that there is information [...]

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Leaders Aren’t Perfect

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Kris Krueger

As hard as this may be to believe, even though people will tell you that they don’t expect you to be perfect as a leader, they, in fact, do.  (If not perfect, then pretty darned close to it!) Think back to your first supervisor of any kind.  Did that person lead perfectly?  Or, conversely, did you [...]

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The Sizes and Shapes of Leadership

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Kris Krueger

As someone learning about leadership, you are often asked to describe the characteristics of a good leader and/or the characteristics of a bad leader.  A worthwhile exercise perhaps and one that often gets us focused on several important leadership behaviors.  As you learn more about great leaders and how they led, however, it quickly becomes [...]

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Your Door Isn’t Open if No One is Coming In

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Kris Krueger

Regardless of whether or not your company has a formal “open door policy,” most of us have had someone say to us “my door is always open if you want to talk.”  As we have moved into positions of authority, we have perhaps even uttered these words to people that report to or work with [...]

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