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...
by trans-admin | Oct 10, 2018 | Leadership & Management
When it comes to leadership, great is the enemy of good. This turns Jim Collins’ famous observation, “Good is the enemy of great,” on its head. Collins’ lesson may apply to companies, but when it comes to leaders, their own striving for perfection can interfere...
