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Quash Rumors With Truth
Leadership October 2, 2018

Quash Rumors With Truth

Rumors at work can be surprisingly destructive. Rumors undermine the confidence of an organization, both within and without; encourage infighting, backbiting,[...]
Jeremy Lott
Fire Drama Queens
Leadership October 2, 2018

Fire Drama Queens

Drama queens (and kings!) are bad for business. They disrupt your workplace by gossiping, backbiting, exaggerating every situation, justifying their bad[...]
RiShawn Biddle
Don’t Yank the Chain of Command
Leadership October 2, 2018

Don’t Yank the Chain of Command

A chain of command, or command hierarchy, is the relationship between personnel in terms of responsibility and authority. It’s a ready-made structure for[...]
mikeharris
Allow for Pushback
Leadership October 2, 2018

Allow for Pushback

We've all been there: a project manager or supervisor asks you to do something you disagree with for some reason. Perhaps the assignment in question takes up[...]
brittanyhunter
How I Got My Life Back
Leadership September 25, 2018

How I Got My Life Back

In 2016, I left the office work-setting to embark on a completely different career in a new field. I was no longer an employee with supervisors assessing my[...]
Andrea Ruth
George Washington vs. Workplace Drama
Leadership September 18, 2018

George Washington vs. Workplace Drama

When George Washington was a teenager, he both copied out by hand and tweaked 110 “rules of civility and decent behavior.” These rules had been compiled by[...]
Jeremy Lott
Money Isn’t Everything
Leadership September 18, 2018

Money Isn’t Everything

A surprising number of people are not primarily motivated by money. In fact, some studies have found that there is only a weak connection between job[...]
heatherroscoe
The Science of Decision Fatigue
Leadership September 11, 2018

The Science of Decision Fatigue

Think back to the last decision you made. What were your options? How did you choose what to do? Most importantly, was the outcome of this decision[...]
Erin Wildermuth
Best Tools for Decision Making
Leadership September 11, 2018

Best Tools for Decision Making

Decision making is a big part of leadership. As a leader, one is expected to take decisions all the time. Some of these are of a routine nature, while others[...]
Pratik Dholakiya
Don’t Choose Your Lunch
Leadership September 11, 2018

Don’t Choose Your Lunch

Back in 2014, Barack Obama declared that he only focused on making the most-important decisions.  “I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating[...]
RiShawn Biddle
Check Baby, Checklist
Leadership September 11, 2018

Check Baby, Checklist

We are a society of list-makers. We gather groups of to-dos and to-don’ts, would-bes and should-bes, and we slap them down on legal pads and post-it notes,[...]
Andrea Williams
Apples, Oranges, and Arguments
Leadership September 4, 2018

Apples, Oranges, and Arguments

One of the bigger problems when it comes to rational discussion today is that we don’t quite know what we are comparing. Everybody has heard the cliché that[...]
Anthony Gill
Leader: Know Thy Biases
Leadership September 4, 2018

Leader: Know Thy Biases

The road sign in my home state of Washington read: “Litter and it will hurt.” I didn’t think twice about it, but our guests from nearby Vancouver,[...]
marcusbrotherton
Slow That Decision Down
Leadership September 4, 2018

Slow That Decision Down

“Don't rush me, sonny! You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles,” warned Billy Crystal, costumed up as Miracle Max in the 1987 classic The[...]
RiShawn Biddle
Hobbies for Perfectionists
Leadership August 28, 2018

Hobbies for Perfectionists

The Wharton-educated bank executive quits weekend bird-watching excursions after missing a prothonotary warbler (rare orange and yellow-headed songbird)[...]
davidmark
The Science of Play
Leadership August 28, 2018

The Science of Play

As a kid who wasn’t allowed to watch television, the focus of my childhood was play. The games are too many to count. There was, for example, a little girl[...]
Erin Wildermuth
Churchill’s Finest Hobby
Leadership August 28, 2018

Churchill’s Finest Hobby

Winston Churchill once wrote that “The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is therefore a policy of first importance”. He knew this well. Even[...]
RiShawn Biddle
Stop Busywork Now!
Leadership August 21, 2018

Stop Busywork Now!

You already know that busywork does nothing more than create the perception that people are working harder than they really are. In fact, 65 percent of your[...]
RiShawn Biddle
Breaking the Addiction to Busy Work
Leadership August 21, 2018

Breaking the Addiction to Busy Work

Hi, my name is Larry, and I'm an addict. I've been clean and sober for three years, two months, and eight days. My drug of choice was not alcohol, narcotics,[...]
Larry Wilson
Meetings Gone Wildly Wrong
Leadership August 21, 2018

Meetings Gone Wildly Wrong

Timothy Wiedman was once a top regional manager for a national retail photofinishing company. He worked hard. Thanks to the company’s “use it or lose it”[...]
Andrea Williams
How to Lead Remote Workers
Leadership August 21, 2018

How to Lead Remote Workers

The long-running debate on the value of working remotely has been rendered moot, at least for now, by the coronavirus. Pundits and consultants have debated[...]
briancarney