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1 Hard Truth That Will Make You a Better Leader Today
Those on the path to good leadership should raise the bar high -- very high. I say this because walking the higher road of integrity with eyes watching your every move in the 8-5 fish bowl can be a very lonely place.
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Walking the Talk: Six Ways Positive Habits Promote Values Every Day
The definition of a habit is something that is done repeatedly, often to the point where it may become subconscious. Habits are something you do without thinking once they are established. Aristotle said that "We are what we repeatedly do: Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit.
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Most CEOs Read A Book A Week. This Is How You Can Too (According To This Renowned Brain Coach)
People say that nobody reads anymore. Honestly, that couldn't be farther from the truth.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
10 Bad Habits That Could Be Stopping You From Getting Promoted
Too many people think that just being good at your job is enough to get you promoted. They think that talent is enough to make it to the top. But surely, if you are good enough people will put up with some of the bad that comes with the package.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
How Knowing Your Professional Value Can Make You the Money You Deserve
Many professionals working hard to build a career make the same mistake. They have no idea how valuable they are. Usually people either undervalue or overvalue themselves. Often, people who undervalue themselves get taken advantage of.
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Work Doesn't Have to Be Dreadful: 6 Tips From an Ex-Google VP on How to Make Work More Rewarding
Laszlo Bock, former senior vice president of people operations at Google and now CEO of Humu, is pretty much the LeBron James of HR. In the few years he spent at Google, he managed to revolutionize the way organizations view and manage their people.
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Why Tension is Good for a Growing Business (and How to Use It)
You've heard of the legendary Charles Atlas, right? Big dude. He was born Angelo Siciliano, but he changed his name after going from a skinny weakling to a specimen so ripped he resembled the Greek Titan known for holding up the sky.
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Why Great Leaders Care About Culture All the Time (Not Just When It's Bad)
Expectations need to be set in all relationships and business is no different. If you're not upfront with employees, new and old, your turnover rates will skyrocket. And it's not just about their responsibility or duties.
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How to Tell When It's Time to Change Your Leadership Team
Troy Rice, entrepreneur and executive coach at Vistage, an organization for CEOs, offers his best tips on how to grow fast.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
How Zillow’s CEO Inspires Greatness in the Workplace
Spencer Rascoff enjoys telling stories. And the lively, high energy CEO of Zillow Group is a good storyteller. He has used storytelling to shape the online real estate company’s culture.
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Monday, June 26, 2017
4 Things the Most Respected Leaders Do for Their Employees
Whenever I conduct workshops for leadership teams, I break them into groups of three and ask the question, "Think of a time when you worked for the best boss you ever had. What made him or her so great?"
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What Would the World Be Like if We All Loved Our Jobs?
When you wake up in the morning, are you filled with excitement about the prospect of a new day at work, or do you dread the thought of having to make it through yet another day of drudgery? If you're like much of the population, you fall into the latter category and distain going to work.
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Sunday, June 25, 2017
Leadership Lessons from the Armed Forces
Every organisation's raison d'etre hinges around the fundamental fact that more contenders are fighting for less resources. That is what human beings have done from the beginning of mankind and this is the core purpose of any corporate or business - large and small.
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Leadership Lessons from the Real World
People often comment that the new leadership I propose couldn't possibly work in "the real world." This "real world" demands efficiency and obedience and is managed by bureaucracy and governed by policies and laws.
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Why Travis Kalanick Ran Out of Allies
Every CEO answers to multiple constituencies, and no CEO can survive for long in his or her job without committed support from at least one of them. The nature of Uber's business model has always made that abundantly clear.
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
3 Ways to Know You're on the Path to Content Marketing Success
Have you ever hit your knee on a misplaced piece of furniture because you didn't turn on the bedside lamp? It's a jarring experience, literally and figuratively.
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Want to Be a Truly Epic Leader? 1 Small Thing You Should Do Daily
Busy is the new smoking. It's cool to talk about how busy you are. To plow through your inbox as you run from meeting to meeting. To wake up at the crack of the dawn so you can get ahead while the world sleeps. To revel in our busyness signals how successful we are.
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Leadership lessons behind bars: Robyn Scott at TEDxOxbridge
In prison, you possess nothing: no assets, no credibility. So effecting change relies almost entirely on persuading and mobilising other people.In this TEDxOxbridge talk, Social Entrepreneur and Author Robyn Scott tells the story of how, a decade ago, in South Africa's most dangerous prison, a group
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LEADERSHIP LESSONS
Earlier this spring we had the opportunity to sit down with New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, and one of the many topics we explored was leadership – and how volunteer coaches can become better at it. He told us: “It’s not about the coach, it’s about the kids.
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TiER1 Performance Solutions
A few years ago I attended a gathering of conscious capitalists in Chicago. The two days were chock full of great programming around the principles of higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious culture, and leadership.
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30-year-old CEO of a $3 billion company shares leadership lessons learned from Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs
In 2012, when he was just 25 years old, Apoorva Mehta founded the same-day grocery delivery start-up Instacart. Now 30, Mehta has grown it into a 10,000-person operation worth $3.4 billion.
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5 Ways Your Company Can Keep Its Competitive Edge
Morgan Housel is a partner at the Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in for-profit companies with a social mission. Finding an edge is hard. Keeping it is harder.
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The 4 Fundamental Pillars Of A Successful Company (According To These 4 CEOs)
When it comes to building a successful company, there truly is a "method to the madness." Read enough interviews, listen to enough CEOs speak on their difficult journey up the mountain, and you'll start to draw parallels from one experience to another -- regardless of industry.
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Maintaining Company Culture During Periods of Transformation
As with life, if you're in business long enough, you're going to face some ups and downs. As a result, your company's culture will likely evolve because of these ebbs and flows -- often in some very unexpected ways.
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6 Books Anyone Who Is Serious About Leadership Should Read
Whether or not you're a natural born leader or you've just found yourself in a leadership role. You have to develop your leadership skills, and often. No matter how much of a master Tom Brady is at throwing a football, he still goes to practice every day, takes coaching and evolves his skills.
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The Highest Rated CEO of 2017 Just Gave a Masterclass in Leadership
Everybody loves a top 100 list. It could be the best dog breeds, best cities to live in, or in this case, the highest rated CEOs. I love Glassdoor's annual list of the top 100 highest rated CEOs because it's based on how the employees of major corporations value their most senior leader.
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Myers-Briggs Just Revealed Why Entrepreneurs Create So Much Conflict
This was a conversation that took place quite a few years ago during my corporate days. One of my direct reports had decided to give me a tongue-lashing. Looking back, I didn't know my own personality--I'm an INFP with a weird entrepreneurial mindset.
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Boost Profit With Constant Brand Consistency
How much is brand consistency worth? This might not be a question you find yourself asking often. Even though we spend a tremendous amount of time discussing branding, plenty of companies go forth into that dark night...uhh...
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5 Leadership Failures of President Trump
Whether you like it not Donald Trump won the presidency and is now the leader of the free world. I'll admit that I have had reservations about him from the beginning for many reasons one being the way he treats people that have done business with him.
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
7 Ways Travis Kalanick Could Have Saved His Job at Uber
The signs were there more than a week ago that big Uber investors might be fed up with CEO Travis Kalanick.
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13 Leadership Lessons World War I
The Great War of 1914-18—it became the First World War only in tragic retrospect—was the seminal event of the 20th century. Its after-effects reverberate in our day. One might argue that the 20th century actually began with the war in 1914, culminating with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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Being a CEO Can Cause Brain Damage, According to Scientists
I've interviewed probably a hundred CEOs and, with few exceptions, my observation has been "the bigger the company, the bigger the jerk." CEOs, especially in big companies, tend to be self-centered, clueless, overconfident and utterly convinced of their own genius.
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You Don't Need to Force Culture. Just Listen to Your Employees
Culture is one of those buzzwords that startups love to talk about, praise themselves for, and use to recruit new hires. In my opinion it's all (or mostly) hype, because true company culture can't be forced.
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7 Leadership Lessons from Yoda
Perhaps the most iconic mentoring leader on the silver screen, Yoda is an excellent example of great leadership. Here are 7 leadership lessons from the great servant leader, Yoda: Yes, Yoda is cool. However, he’s not the popular hero of the series.
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Arizona Guard Airman Relates Leadership Lessons
PHOENIX, June 20, 2017 — Arizona Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Jonathan Sheaffer wears a fireman’s helmet as a hazardous material technician for the City of Maricopa Fire Medical Department, a coach’s cap as an assistant high school football coach, and a military duty cap as a vehicle m
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When Replacing Travis, Don't Fight the Last War
The board made its move. Travis is out. The job openings at Uber now include CEO, among the many other c-suite openings.
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5 Leadership Lessons From Being a Dad
Being a dad has been, and continues to be, one of the greatest joys of my life. I’ve experienced tremendous highs, suffered through some lows, doubted myself, learned much, and have been stretched to grow in ways I couldn’t have imagined when I first started this journey twenty-five years ago.
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What to Do If You See Your CEO at Lunch
The Leadership Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in business contribute answers to timely questions about careers and leadership.
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Steal Googlers' Secret for Avoiding Burnout in a High-Stress Job
OK, the free food and innovation-friendly culture make working at Google sound like a dream come true. But let's be honest, for all its perks, the company definitely doesn't sound like a low-stress place to work.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Use the Principle of Success to Remove the Lid on Quality of Hire
It doesn't take much convincing to recognize that job descriptions which emphasize skills, experience and competencies put a lid on quality of hire and eliminate the chance to hire more high potential diverse talent.
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3 Leadership Lessons I Learned From the Executive Director of the NFL Players Association
I’m a professional lacrosse player for the New York Lizards and Team USA. Many of you may not even know there’s a pro lacrosse league -- and that’s OK.
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