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."...
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...
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...
It's easy to stay motivated at work when you have an good manager at the helm; however, the real world requires that you know how to be efficient at work in spite of ineffective leadership. Read on for self-management tips to keep yourself emotionally engaged and produce your...
Ineffective leadership costs the average business the equivalent of 7 percent of its annual sales, according to recent figures from the Ken Blanchard Companies. For a startup with $1 million in sales, that's $70,000 lost, all due to poor management. Ineffective leaders make it hard for organizations...
