Wearing a mask is normal. It’s part of social lubrication. … … By now you should be used to wearing a mask in public. Let me reword that. As a leader, you are used to wearing a mask. You put on a mask to project (a message; a mood) and you put on a mask…
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A bully at the top promotes team work
– The typical organization is a hierarchy of imbalanced power, which makes it a perfect bully factory. Unless the leaders stop it. And most sensible leaders do prevent it because they know that corporate bullying makes your best people disappear. But what if the top gun is the bully? I once joined a company of…
Here’s the one skill we don’t need in our leaders
– If there is one thing I have learned in the land obsessed with leadership, then it’s this. I’m a silly old fool. To me, leadership is about leading. And leading implies movement, not standing still. It is about going places, not staying put in one place. Based on this view of leadership, I believe…
Advice for wannabe leaders: Keep your shoes on
– We keep hearing ridiculous statements from so-called leaders about how they feel our pain. And that they know where we’ve gone wrong and how we should now behave. Nice of them, to be sure. But annoying because they don’t really know, do they? So we’re tempted to say, please don’t judge others until you’ve…
How to know which lead in leadership you should use
– What do the letters “L E A D” spell? Lead as in leader or lead as in heavy? The answer is? Both! And so it is with leadership. Sometimes it means “to lead” and other times it means “to weigh down.” Sometimes it means “let’s go” and other times it means “slow down.” A leader makes you want…
When the going gets tough, real toughs go where they can see clearly
– When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Tell me, how do you interpret the part about the tough get going? It all depends on your mind-set, doesn’t it? You might believe that it means the tough will get involved, roll up their sleeves and tackle the problem. Or you could be cynical…