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An Engaged Manager Can Recharge Uninspired Employees
Managers deal with this everywhere: unengaged employees. Becoming more involved in their teams' day-to-day activities can help reverse this. According to The Center for Creative Leadership, greater ...
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 ...
When Negative Employee Feedback Leads to Tears, Leaders Need Patience
It's an awkward situation many managers have faced: giving negative feedback to an employee who becomes emotional and cries. Keeping calm and showing empathy can make the situation bearable and even ...
Isolate ‘Bad Apple’ Employees to Protect Company Morale and Performance
Toxic employees, or "bad apples," can spread negativity and dysfunction, diminishing the performance and morale of an entire company. If they can't be reformed or fired right away, one way executives ...
Where Business Leaders Should Spend More of Their Time (But Don’t)
Imagine a place where executives could go to discover striking new ways to improve their business. A place where, just by visiting, the executives come away more energized and their employees become ...
Why a Five-Hour Workday May Make Sense
The American workforce has become lazy. I estimate, conservatively, that knowledge workers are four times as efficient as they were 20 years ago. That's why I moved my company to a five-hour workday ...
CEOs Succeed by Making Time Alone to Think
One way the best CEOs get important work done is by pulling partially back from their executive staff in order to think and focus. Bain & Company partner James Allen argues that this is an ...
Why Company Culture Matters to CIOs
Many new CIOs make the same mistake. They've just been hired into their new position and have a mandate from those who did the hiring—the board, the CEO, an executive search committee—to "shake ...