Doing Less, Leading More
December 19, 2013
Excellent article that gets to the crux of leadership: In order to be great, you have to shed the individual…
Harvard Business Review
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.