Business is unpredictable despite your best calculations
May 16, 2013
The quest to know all the answers down to the last decimal place sometimes gives people a false sense of…
Month: May 2013
Six Hats of the CEO: The Highest Value Roles
May 14, 2013
To be great the modern CEO must have tremendous influence over their organizations while in some sense seeming to do…
CEO Fail: The Budget Blower CEO
May 9, 2013
My previous article for the CEO failure modes series was about the Roman Emperor CEO, who uses company coffers to…
Six Hats of the CEO: Priest
May 7, 2013
The sixth and final hat in this series is one I am adding to Jim Schleckser’s work on The High…
Why leadership’s sunny side can burn you
May 6, 2013
Your Optimism Might Be Stifling Your Team
This is a great article in Harvard Business Review about how unbridled optimism can be detrimental to employees. Especially for a CEO, being too optimistic can make employees think you don’t understand their challenges, you are being dishonest, and/or that you don’t have a grasp on reality. I covered the drawbacks of a CEO who is too optimistic in my Cheerleader CEO Fail post.
Can’t buy employee motivation (Infographic)
May 2, 2013
Here is an interesting infographic Salesforce.com published on its blog about How to Motivate Your Employees, with the main message that money is not the top motivator. This is a topic I’ll keep covering along with employee engagement, because they are integral to ensuring high performance in companies. Late last year I discussed Daniel Pink’s outstanding TED presentation on The Puzzle of Motivation, which goes into more detail about how intrinsic motivators are more effective than extrinsic ones. I highly recommend his book also: Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us
