From Managers To Leaders

Most recently I have accepted a new role with my employer. It was a promotion for all intents and purposes. In some ways it also feels like a demotion because of everything I have to learn. It’s hard going from one area where everything was well known to you – to a new area where [...]

The new popular term in town is a phrase called “putting out the fire”. It seems to be used to describe new challenges that pop up in the workplace at any given time. In my experience more “corporate fires” are caused by lack of understanding, lack of direction, and lack of leadership than any outside [...]

Most of us have good intentions. We start each day with our goals and ‘to do’ lists that will help us ensure our effectiveness. Then we start to go to meetings, have one on ones with our staff, walk around your office floor or production floor. Little by little in your interactions you begin to [...]

I saw this quote the other day and it got me thinking:
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George S. Patton
At first I was nodding along with the idea that he was right, we should let people surprise us with how they [...]

How many of you out there have either heard this or said it yourself?
“Well, they are not who they use to be.”
This usually comes a few months after a promotion or even just hours after an unpopular decision has been announced. It is often linked by those who hear it to feelings of jealousy, [...]