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."...
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...
Leigh Steere recently reviewed "Everything's a Project" by Ben Snyder and introduced one of the book's core concepts: Employee engagement is a three-legged stool. I've written plenty about employee engagement -- especially as it pertains to efficiency and productivity -- and like...
Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson's Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness. Productivity-Enhancing Office Practices * Does Your Office Need a Thinking Day? * 5 Management Strategies to Enable Efficiency * 3...
You can't force your team to become more productive, but some management strategies can enable efficiency by boosting employee morale and overall happiness. Happiness is increasingly being considered a metric for success in the business sphere, and research supports the idea that a happy worker is a more...
Today's must-reads help managers, entrepreneurs and leaders make more effective New Year's resolutions. What work-related resolutions have you made this year? * Two suggestions to become a better manager in 2012. [Manage Fearlessly] * Five resolutions for aspiring leaders, including volunteering, traveling and participating in a leadership development...
