Leadership Lessons from Las Vegas
We spent the better part of last week in Las Vegas at the annual SHRM convention. It’s a great opportunity for us to talk with our clients and bury ourselves in the topics that interest them. On...
View ArticleHow To Be a Leader: The Lesson of “First Followers”
One of the tricky things about leadership is that it happens over long stretches of time. In hindsight, it’s easy to spot great leadership. Wherever there’s positive change, you can usually trace...
View ArticleHow Apple Breaks All The “Rules” of an Innovation Culture
Last night Apple announced financial results and blew away all expectations. It got me thinking about Apple’s culture – a culture that has supported the creation of some of the world’s most beautiful...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup on Employee Engagement and Corporate Culture
Each week we try to point out some of the best, most thought-provoking content on employee engagment, corporate culture and leadership: FastCompany magazine explores how MailChimp has created a...
View ArticleBlowfish leaders? Time for a leadership intervention.
Blowfishes have a toxin that is deadly—even the little ones people put in fish tanks. And they’re paranoid. At the slightest feeling of threat, they puff up into a toxic version of themselves. At...
View ArticleLeadership Secret: Fake It ‘Til You Make It
A mentor shared the following story with me: “I was at a luncheon with 50 other CEOs and company Presidents. The speaker, a well-known leadership expert, asked the group, ‘How many of you feel like...
View ArticleWhat Pro Football Can Teach Us About Succession Planning
What’s pro football got to do with talent management? Where else can you watch office politics and ego play out in the public square? Every press conference and every locker room interview are...
View ArticleFive C-Suite Leadership Lessons from Walt Disney
“Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.” Think Walt Disney only drew mice and princesses? Think again. Here’s a...
View ArticleAn Employee Engagement Survey is Like a DNA Test
Organizations are a lot like organisms (ever notice how similar those two words are??). And culture is a lot like DNA: we’ve known it exists for a long time, but only recently have we begun to...
View Article4 Ways to Fix Amazon’s Anytime Feedback Tool
You’ve probably seen the firestorm triggered by a New York Times exposé of the company culture within Amazon and the rebuttals from Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, and employees alike. The piece isn’t...
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