Sports fan or not last nights Steelers-Bengals playoff game provides an excellent analogy for problems businesses need to avoid! And avoid at all costs! The problems I speak of can be toxic whether it’s an entry-level employee, a manager or a C-Suite occupant who forgets that all involved are working towards the same goal. The success of […]
If, as Adam Grant wrote in a 2013 article ‘Give and Take’, leaders need to be givers, must they also be the consummate ‘nice guy’ as well? Givers Gain! On May 6 I had written an article offering the opinion that serial takers needed to be avoided at all costs and that like-minded people going out of […]
With my first job out of business school on and around the trading floors at some of Wall Street’s most well known investment banks, I have firsthand experience with what at the time could have been called bullying at work! Of course in the 1980’s it was not called bullying but rather what I would […]
Spending a Sunday on the couch watching ‘professionals’ play brought this question of victory versus loss to my mind! Moral Victory: A moral victory occurs when a person, team, army or other group loses a confrontation, and yet achieves some other moral gain. This gain might be unrelated to the confrontation in question, and the […]
There’s no ‘I’ in team in much the same way as there is no “Me’ in business! Of course there will always be exceptions to the rule such as the trader who works out of his house with the only raw materials being used are technology and money but, for the rest of us, our businesses […]
