The title of this article is pretty declarative, don’t you think? Actually it isn’t completely true. You don’t have to have a positive attitude to have a leadership role, and you don’t even have to have it to lead. But you definitely must have a positive attitude if you want to lead successfully for an
This week’s Resource Recommendation is Mondays at 3: A Story for Managers Learning to Lead by Greg Giesen. I’ve spent a good bit of my last two years thinking about the challenges new leaders face. I co-designed and have been delivering the Bud to Boss Workshops, co-wrote From Bud to Boss and have been coaching
I’m in Orlando with most my team athe American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Convention. Last night, our first night here, we went to B.B. King’s Restuarant and Blues Club. Of the many cool things in the place (and how can the place not be cool if it has B.B. King’s name attached to
Until recently, when people thought of the word team, they thought of a group of people working together in close proximity. This applied to any sort of team – be it sports or work. Of course, the world looks different now. While sports teams still need to compete on the same field or floor, working
One of the hottest topics in the world of Human Resources these days is succession planning. I’ve had conversations with two executives within the last week that lamented the need to think about succession planning, and both said there wasn’t time to work on it in the short term. While we could talk about the
The run-up, the hype, the media coverage has been almost unprecedented. People have been talking about it for months. The media is ready. Apparently, the viewers are ready. And tomorrow, people around the world will be glued to their televisions, attending viewing parties, and putting their lives on hold to watch one wedding in London. Yep,
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