Every company has tangible assets including their capital goods and their product inventories. Inadvertently managers can be focused on these tangible assets, while charismatic leaders focus their attention on the…
What does it take to get people to want to work for you? There are several factors a charismatic leader cultivates but one I’d like to focus on today is…
In my new book, The Gift: Discretionary Effort, I describe five management levers the charismatic leader can use to motivate employees. These five levers effectively replace the stick and carrot…
One of the best treatises on working from your strengths is Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton. Their simple but powerful thesis is: the best way…
Is your executive leadership team wondering how to increase workplace productivity? There is growing research that giving and happiness is related to productivity in the workplace. When people give generously…
Do managers or employees hate performance reviews worse? Has the performance review become a routine time waster? Are your performance reviews missing the mark of raising productivity and building loyalty?…
Well, not in quite the way you think of "touchy feely". Being overly emotional has never been the 'in' thing at work. However, what is now 'in' is the recognition…
The Future Started Yesterday...in case you didn't notice. Do you feel behind already? Is your organization struggling to keep up with the changing fluctuations of the economic environment, battling to…
There is nothing more angering than having a problem to solve and the people who are responsible for solving that problem look at you with blank, hollow eyes that avoid…