All too often, delegating work-related responsibilities is viewed as the unloading of unwanted tasks onto another. But that is not the case; delegation is a matter of trust and confidence in the person, or persons, to whom you are delegating. Being an effective and efficient leader relies on delegating tasks and responsibilities to the other […]
Motivating employees seems to be a constant struggle for many leaders and managers. Try as they might, it seems to be a losing battle. They’ve tried carrots – pay increases, bonuses, stock options, fewer hours, more days off, and just about every other perk they can think of. They’ve tried sticks, too – threats to […]
Time for a vocabulary test. What’s the difference between sympathy and empathy? Think about it. If you don’t know the difference, then you’ll gain nothing from this article. The problem is that the two words are now used interchangeably, as synonyms for each other. Even Thesaurus.com thinks they’re the same. But when you look at […]
Think of the number of articles or even books you have read that tell you what the first thing is that you should do when you start something new or revisit something that’s older. If you’re starting a new project, then the first thing might be to decide what your goal is. Even that has […]
It’s an undisputed fact that a poisoned organizational culture can kill all change initiatives. It doesn’t matter how competent your project management team is, how enthusiastic the board is, or even if your strategies have worked in every other company that you know of. If your culture is poor, then you have a serious problem […]
One of the biggest time-wasters in organizations today is meetings. There are so many of them, that it can take an army of personal assistants to make sure that everyone arrives at the right place, and at the right time. To say that there numerous books available about meetings would be an understatement. At present, […]
Leadership is probably the most discussed and least understood topic in organizations. The word itself yields more than two billion returns on Google. That alone should give you some idea, not only of its popularity, but also the wide range of opinions that surround it. So at the risk of adding to the billions of […]
Organizational narratives are the manifestation of the shared beliefs an organization holds about itself as a collective. “Our organization stands for innovation,” is a common example; “This will never work here, we are too conservative for that” yet another. Corporate narratives that deal with the collective view the organization holds about itself often form and […]
Jeffrey Camp
Jesse Jacoby
Erika Jacobi
