Are you a snowplow manager? How do you know? There are an awful lot of cute names for bad leadership out there. You know about micro-managers, seagull managers, and fireman managers. Now the adorable list of bad ways to lead people has a new entrant. A snowplow manager is one who spends too much time moving
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) They say that the only things that are certain are death and taxes. How about we add uncertainty to that list? While life is full of uncertainties, large and small, in the world of work, there seem to
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) The gap between potential and performance exists for everyone. Some significantly close this gap – those are people we often look up to and admire. Others seem to have gaps that are so large that we see tragedy
You’ve probably heard the term “AI hallucination.” That means when there is data missing, AI will make things up that make sense to itself. There’s a huge problem here: I don’t need a machine that thinks like I do. We keep hearing that Artificial Intelligence is smarter and more reliable than the human brain for a
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Chances are, if you are reading this, you would like to be a better coach. And further, chances are, if you are reading this, you are probably already an above average coach – because those are whom want
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) The title makes a definitive statement – “must” is a strong word. And observing leaders for over thirty years, I know that not all leaders think about what I’m about to tell you about. But all the most
I have recently taken up bird watching. I don’t tell you that so you think I’m cool, (It wouldn’t work. No cool person has ever said, “I’m a birder.”) But it has me thinking about birds. And evolution. And, on a particular Sunday afternoon, about the evolving workplace. Stick with me on this, there’s a
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) Most of us have asked ourselves “who am I?” at various moments in our lives. I would suggest that more leaders should ask the corollary question. “What kind of a leader am I?” is the leadership identity question
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) I’m going to give you the hard truth (and the big key) to professional excellence in the next few hundred words. Even better, it isn’t just the key to professional excellence but excellence in any part of your
Something we have been doing our entire lives should be easy and instinctual. Right? What if that thing is communicating? If it’s so natural, why are we always complaining that someone misunderstood what we said, or that meeting could have been an email, but nobody read the email!? This is particularly common in remote work
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