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Bonus Time? Targeted Observation of Employee Tasks Can Help Make the Decision
Every executive wonders at some point whether particular employees are excelling or slacking. Often this question arises around the time that bonuses are given out. A recent article on the ...
Good Bosses Help Employees Navigate Through Troubled Personal Matters
Even the best employees can have personal circumstances that crop up and interfere with performance and success. A good boss/employer keeps this in mind and helps staff members navigate those trouble ...
Help Your Supervisors Look Good and Influence Their Decisions as a Result
There's a simple way employees can influence their supervisors: Help them look good. This is a simple thing that employees (some who will be future executives themselves) can do, according to ...
Humility Helps First-Time Managers Build Stellar Reputations
So you're a first-time manager, an executive on the rise. How do you approach the employees who serve under you? Humility is a better approach than taking on a nascent leadership role with guns ...
Great Leaders Dive Right Into Turbulence, With a Plan and Clear Goals
Great leaders never run from turbulence. Instead, they dive right into it, with a goal of improving the situation. That's the conclusion forwarded in a recent Leadership Freak blog posting by ...
Lead Transformation by Acknowledging Smarter People in the Room: Providence Mutual CEO Parrillo
As insurance executives fret about helping their companies embrace new technology and change, one CEO offers this idea: Embrace that there are other, smarter people in the room. "Everybody in my ...
Be Kind, and Lead Well
For all good leaders, kindness counts. That quality reflects a leader who is sensitive and empathetic about his or her team and what they need to succeed, Mary Anne Amato writes in a recent "Leading ...
Gen. McChrystal at the I.I.I. Joint Industry Forum: Good Leaders Are Gardeners
Gen. Stanley McChrystal said a leader should be a gardener. That isn't necessarily something you'd expect to hear from McChrystal, a retired United States Army four-star general, and former commander ...