Leaders: What Ever Happened to Excuse Me?

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Anil Saxena

What happened to polite people? It seems that over the years, people have continuously treated people worse. Rudeness and incivility affect people in a deeper level, and especially affect their performance in the workplace. A recent incident of “over-the-top rudeness” made me relate rudeness and incivility to not only strangers in public, but between coworkers. [...]

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The Unwritten Rules of Career Success

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Judy Lindenberger

Last week I taught a half a dozen workshops for one of my clients on how to succeed at work. In doing research for the workshop, I came across a survey entitled Unwritten Rules: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Career. According to the authors, Laura Sabattini and Sarah Dinolfo, some very interesting and [...]

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Leadership Follies: The Art of Management by Shiny Objects

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Anil Saxena

One of the biggest issues that face many leaders today is the lack of clarity in the direction of their teams and organizations. This is most evident directly after a big change. It is not that team members are not well-meaning or that they don’t try to do the right thing, it is that they [...]

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Leadership: How to Make an Elephant Fly

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Andy Uskavitch

“I seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, I seen a needle that winked its eye. But I be done seen ‘bout ev’rything When I see an elephant fly.”                                                   [...]

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3 Successful Ways to Build Inner Strength

Posted on June 24, 2011 by LaRae Quy

We admire people with inner strength—we make them our heroes and call them by names like John Wayne. Heroes don’t focus on their weaknesses—instead, they develop their strengths so they can respond to unexpected challenges with confidence.

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Go Back, To Go Forward

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Andy Uskavitch

“Take a step back to go forward? Are you nuts?” Well . . . that’s beside the point. But I am serious. It’s a Directional Thing Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward. And good leaders realize this. How many times have you been driving your car someplace and suddenly realized that you [...]

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The Age of Relationship Has Come of Age

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

“What kind of workplace do you want to join?” I asked this question to many people I meet. I ask the millennials,  gen Y’s, the gen X’s, the boomers, even those starting high school that I call the gen F’s (the Facebook crowd…) What Do You Want? The kind of organization that people want to [...]

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