by trans-admin | Jan 16, 2019 | Leadership & Management
Of all the risks to ethical behavior – and we need only read the headlines to see how greed, power, and fame can tempt – one catalyst to unethical behavior you may not have thought of until you read Christopher Barnes’ research, is fatigue, or more specifically,...
by trans-admin | Dec 31, 2018 | Leadership & Management
This time of year many of us resolve to do things differently – add or eliminate habits. There’s the appeal of a clean slate. But then we may lose track of that commitment. Or get discouraged. Why? Maybe it didn’t matter enough. Or wasn’t pleasant. Or maybe the...
by trans-admin | Dec 17, 2018 | Leadership & Management
Mary was running late for the weekly management meeting. She was typically on-time and hated to be late. She rushed in, worried about whether she would find her manager in the reasonable-boss mood or the mean-boss mood. When she walked in her manager looked at his...
by trans-admin | Nov 15, 2018 | Leadership & Management
Relentless effort was one of George Washington’s outstanding leadership qualities; the other was emotional control or what we now call emotional self-regulation, an element of emotional intelligence. Simply put, it is the ability to not lash out or act out despite...
by trans-admin | Oct 17, 2018 | Leadership & Management
I had the pleasure recently of hearing Doris Kearns Goodwin speak about Lincoln and other presidential leaders. Her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln might well have been subtitled the “leadership genius of Abraham Lincoln”. This HBR article...
