Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Leadership”
Does anyone really know what the hell it means to be “loyal” as an employee? A lot of executives when asked to describe the perfect employee or hire will constantly use this trait, “loyalty”. “I want a person who is loyal!” The number two trait is “someone who will actually show up”! So, apparently, the bar has gotten pretty low …
For those who don’t get the reference, Amazon’s founder and soon to be former CEO, Jeff Bezos (the richest dude in the world, even after a divorce) often sites his most held belief that he and his employees should always act like every day is Day 1. It’s a startup mentality. No matter how big you get, if you come …
Twitter finally banned Donald Trump from its platform. Other social media platforms followed Twitter’s actions and banned DJT as well, basically taking away the megaphone he’s enjoyed for so long. Trump used social media like no other President before him. In the end, his social media use was his downfall. As leaders in Talent and HR, we all know how …
Let’s get this out of the way first – I’m a BIG FAN OF INTEGRITY in the business world. I love people who have integrity, I’m just enough of an expert to know you can’t effectively measure integrity in the business world. That’s why I know that any company attempting to compensate people on the concept of integrity is: A) …
Given how terrible 2020 has been, nobody would blame you for being a Scrooge this holiday season. But what if you just don’t identify with Scrooge? Well, perhaps a more contemporary grouch would be a better choice — someone like the Grinch, especially the 1966 Chuck Jones version (no snickering, please; that’s contemporary for me) with the late, great Boris …
The tributes to Tony Hsieh have been pouring in, as they should. I cannot think of any other leader who changed the work environment’s trajectory more than him. Some may say Steve Jobs or others of that ilk, but Hsieh’s differences from the Jobs’ model were stark. Rather than following Jobs’ model of using control tactics and Jobs’ own preferred aesthetic to …
Put together an online version of our BOSS Training (Compensation Module) for a client a few months back, and while our training on the topic is great, there’s no question a fully functioning manager or people has to be really knowledgeable on the comp front to successfully answer all tough questions they’re going to face. What questions, you ask? He’s …
If your news feed has been even remotely similar to mine over the past week (or months for that matter), then it hasn’t been hard to find lots of examples of leaders being hypocrites. Leaders whose actions defy common sense and the values/image that we want our leaders to uphold. And this week’s dose of leadership hypocrisy stems from something …
I believe in the importance of having a plan. Ben Martinez believes this too, as he spelled out so succinctly in The Only Bad Plan Is No Plan here on FOT. As he put it, “My job is to create a plan to better deal with chaos,” a lesson he’s learned while coping with all that has happened in the …
2020 is winding down and at the start of this year, none of us except Bill Gates had COVID-19 listed as an external force to deal with. This time last year if someone mentioned Corona to me, I would have immediately thought of the beer, Mexico and some chips and salsa. Fact: You, me, the President and President elect had …
