At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders at all levels grappled with never-before-experienced challenges, and decisions generally came down from the top about how organizations would respond. Employees looked to leadership to clarify ambiguity and provide direction. Now, as …
I worked recently with a CEO (let’s call her Elaine) who was deeply confounded by a sudden change in her effectiveness. Her niche organization had found solid business footing with steady margins, but available-now resources and the ability to scale …
Navigating the road to success – or staying on it – requires managing a lot of different factors. One that can be easily overlooked is the importance of ego. A healthy sense of ego results in a projection of confidence …
While collaborative skills are increasingly sought-after in the workplace, the need to achieve results has, of course, not diminished in importance. These two critical skill sets – teaming and driving – can often feel like they’re in tension, and require …
All of us have felt the effects of a poor night’s sleep. It’s no groundbreaking news that sleep is vital to our health, but can our sleep habits directly influence our leadership skills? The clear answer is yes—however, with heavy …
Productivity is often reduced to a numbers game. When business is suffering, leaders tend to look for possible causes in concrete places: down economy, low product innovation, increase in competitors, or discontinuation of long-term projects, to name a few. But …
Productivity has long been measured in hours spent working. As a result, employees boast about stress levels, sleep lost, and overtime in the office with a sense of pride; those that bemoan working 50 plus hours a week are stigmatized …
