Accurate representation is essential when you're of a certain stature. For the rest of us, leadership is that equally essential component. How do you pick the best, and what does who you pick say about you as an individual? * Mitt Romney wants to be the leader of the free world,...
In my last newsletter, I shared tips to manage millennials for maximum productivity, but there's one management mistake that will throttle Gen-Y workers' efficiency every time: disengaged management, otherwise known as "not caring." As I wrote in my column for Lifehack.org this week, millennials thrive on mentorship and continuous...
Earlier this week, Brian Kibby shared a truth that will be hard for many managers to swallow: they are chasing their best workers away. "People leave their manager and not their company," he wrote, adding, "I cannot think of one instance where this hypothesis was wrong." Managers who lose top...
We know that exercise decreases stress, but a recent study out of Northern Illinois University also found that fit managers are less likely to exhibit abusive behavior to employees. Bosses who didn't get regular physical activity were far more prone to venting at subordinates and feeling a time crunch at...
Most managers and entrepreneurs tend to shy away from failure, but as these must-reads on leadership failures prove, there's more to learn from misses than makes. * The late Joe Paterno left behind an incredible history of winning and great leadership at Penn State. In this post, Dan Rockwell examines the...
An astounding 90 percent of managers are ineffective, according to a study published in "Business Strategy Review." When you also consider that ineffective leadership costs businesses an average of 7 percent of annual sales, you have a recipe for financial disaster. Researchers Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal found that just...
