Leadership
Be a Toxic Employee
If I knew two years ago how to be a toxic employee, the knowledge would have saved me much grief.
Initiative Horrifying Initiative
People talk up initiative, but they act it down. Initiative is something everyone says they want and admire. But initiative means change. It means doing something that the organization isn’t doing already. It means challenging the status quo and taking the lead for an unknown future.
If you’re a leader, an initiative-driven constituent will challenge you [...]
Eight Things Leaders Never Do
Great leaders are few and far between. This has nothing to do with genetics. Rather, most people just don’t know how to be leaders. The good news is that it’s relatively easy to learn to be a leader. You can start with these 8 beginner’s errors that can sabotage your efforts as a leader.
Intuition Power
Kathy Sierra’s post on Creating Passionate Users reminds me of the story of how Andy Kirk saved a team of firefighters.
How to Sell for Your Competitors
I didn’t know what category to put this one under, so I put it in four different ones.
Jim Logan tells a story that I’ve seen too many times in real life. When you don’t have enough people buying your product, attending your function, or supporting your cause, what do you do? Scold, then beg. Yeah. [...]
Want Engaged Team Players? Ask!
If you want the people on your team to be engaged and to work together— Well, don’t ask them to be engaged. And don’t ask them to be “team players”? Either of these is likely to accomplish the opposite of what you want.