Imagine that you own a business and need to manage a team of employees whose expertise runs the gamut from entry level to star! Many don’t have to imagine such a scenario because that is exactly the type of business environment that you operate in. And, if you are like me, you demand a few basic […]
What attributes make an ordinary leader a great leader? Certainly it’s an ability, often innate, to inspire others while in some way helping to enable them to achieve their best. But is there more? In today’s world a leader not only has to have a great strategic vision along with the willingness to move forward rather than […]
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 […]
