“It may be lonely at the top, but I don’t want to be second guessed all the time is why I don’t want a Board of Directors”. Being the Leader of a company in this day and age and running it by yourself is suicide. Find a partner, whether that is your spouse or a close confident and it’s just a lover’s leap. Same outcome.
Manager: What is their Job
Should a Manager be evaluated as a Coach, Counselor, or Worker Bee in today’s world? Like it or not Covid fast-forwarded us into a new work world. Dragged along were the ‘issues’ of the younger workforce, changing cultural norms, a growing labor shortage, and then the new hybrid work environment. What didn’t change was the […]
Do You Need a Leadership ‘Team’
The idea of a team at the top is a seductive notion for Leaders. There are very few who do not refer often- both privately and publicly – to their ‘top team’. Why is it then that employees often see less team performance at the top of the organization than elsewhere in the company.
IS A TEAM JUST A TEAM ?
Leaders get in trouble right away with Teams is two-fold. First, they use the term team generically. They want their work group to ‘feel’ like a team and function like a team (whatever that means). Second, Leaders perceive only one definition of a team or application, when there are really three (or sometimes more) distinct ones.
To Team or Not to Team
Does it make good business sense to have a focus on Teams? Throwing around the terms Team and teamwork brings up many different ideas of what those terms mean.
What IF?
A business owner recently remarked that he finds himself spending more time asking What IF questions relative to his business than ever before. Is he wasting his time?