Leadership

How To Make Your Staff Happy? Sue Shellenbarger is best known for writing the “Work & Family” column in the Wall Street Journal for 40 years. She retired on January 3, 2020, which was the 40th anniversary of her first day at the newspaper. Shellenbarger wrote primarily for working mothers and covered a mix of…

Do You Know How To Motivate Your Team? When I started to build my first team, I was interested in understanding what motivates people. Realizing that every person has a unique personality and a distinct set of personal circumstances, I wanted to know how to motivate each team member in a fair and consistent way…

Centered Leadership: How It Influences Your Success In Life? It may be surprising to learn how many leadership models have been developed over the years. One of those models is centered leadership. The term was coined by two McKinsey & Company consultants, Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston. They described their theory and model in a…

How Important Will Transformational Leadership Be In The Future? We know that the business environment is changing, and organizations need dynamic capabilities to achieve and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. A dynamic capability is an ability to sense opportunities, make investments to take advantage of those opportunities, and reconfigure the resources to adapt to the changes…

How To Inspire Meaningful Work Through Radical Transparency? “Meaningful work and meaningful relationships were and still are my primary goals and everything I did was for them.” – Ray Dalio Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest and most successful hedge funds in the world. They manage almost $160 billion…

Are Companies Legally Liable For Not Providing Meaningful Work? We know that meaningful work is good for both employees and employers. While meaningful work is worthwhile in of itself, scholars consider meaningfulness to be a fundamental psychological need and a component of human well-being that strengthens people’s self-worth and life experience. Meaningful work addresses the…

How To Inspire People By Helping Them Find Their Why? Almost every non-fiction book published in the last ten years mentions the ideas of Carol Dweck and Simon Sinek. Carol Dweck popularized the concept of a growth mindset through her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Simon Sinek demonstrated the power of knowing your why…

Which Lessons From Legendary Jack Welch Are Applicable Today? We have leadership styles of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. While tomorrow’s leadership styles are still developing, they are undoubtedly influenced by the leadership styles of yesterday and today. As the world is rapidly changing, we can rely on history to determine what should work best and…

Warren Buffett’s Greatest Lesson About Meaningful Work Warren Buffett needs no introduction. People love to study him, or rather his investing philosophies, so that they can learn from them and achieve similar results. Learning from the greatest investor of all time is a prudent strategy. My interest in Buffett has more to do with him…