Followership: How to Master an Underrated Career Skill
If you run an Amazon search of “leadership,” you’ll get over 60,000 book titles. If you do the same thing for “followership,” you’ll get...
ARTICLES
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
How good managers command respect from their people
Many managers—especially new ones—believe that the key to being a good boss is to be likeable. Why, then, are so many people both...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
My Post Vacation Clarity on Work
Folks, I’m back from my annual pilgrimage to the Montana and Idaho mountains. Every year when I return, I do so with renewed perspective...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
New graduates, for the love, "follow your passion" is not a sound career strategy
Yeah, I know commencement speeches abound with thoughts of defying consensus and following your dreams. Then, there is that quote often...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
Are You Giving Up Your Power At Work?
Few things make employees more anxious than feeling powerless to control their destinies. The irony of this is that no one can take away...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 4 min
Why Fixing Your Weaknesses Is a Terrible Career Strategy
The great American poet, Ke$ha, once said, “We R who we R.” Grammatical critiques aside, the woman has a point! You come hard-wired with...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 5 min
The Four R's of a Great Resume
When I was in business school, I spent a ridiculous amount of time working on my resume. In search of perfection, I wrestled with trivial...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
Don't Let Evil Bosses Ruin You
Some bosses are evil. And I’m using the word evil like Mike Meyers would use it: “E-vil. Like, the fru-its of the De-vil.” That’s some...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
Leadership: Why Persuasion is Better than Power
“The more you tighten your grip, Lord Vader, the more star systems will slip through your fingers” –Princess Leia There are two prominent...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 7 min
How to Prepare to Deliver Killer Business Presentations
For those of you who have important business presentations coming up, here are my thoughts on how to best prepare. Sorry for the novel,...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
The Top Ways to Mess Up a Job Interview
It’s sort of unfair. A 45 minute interview is all you get to show a potential employer who you are and why you are amazing. In fact,...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
What Does "Leadership Presence" Mean, Anyway?
In performance reviews, some feedback is easy to give and simple to correct. For example, a boss telling and employee that she needs to...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 2 min
Five Excuses People Use To Stay In Jobs They Hate
Sometimes people are just in the wrong job. The simplest way to identify this is if they absolutely hate going to work every day for a...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
The Art of Internal Selling
If you work for a corporation, you have picked a career in sales. You may not work in the sales department. You may not call on...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 5 min
7 Bad Interview Questions and How to Respond to Them
When interviewing for a job, there are some things within your control: your preparation, your resume, your attitude and your dress....
- Mar 20, 2019
- 4 min
For New Bosses: 8 Tips for Difficult Feedback Discussions
There are three cardinal sins often committed by new managers. The first is micromanagement. New managers have spent their entire careers...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
Want to be Happy at Work? Stop Comparing
“If I could just get into the sixth grade reading class, then ‘Little Miss Perfect’ would stop bragging to me,” my eight-year-old son,...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 4 min
How To Tell Great Stories With Data
A few years ago I was given valuable feedback from my boss. He had asked me to analyze the pros and cons of a potential acquisition for...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
Rocky Balboa vs. Apollo Creed...In Corporate America
If Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed were corporate employees, who would win? In 1976, the Oscar went to Rocky, the iconic film about a...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 4 min
The Do's and Don'ts of Promotion Discussions
(Warning: this article may be unsuitable for professionals who believe that the process of getting promoted is fair) Employees are like...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 4 min
6 Ways to Get Co-Workers To Like You
For those new to corporate America, the term “cross-functional leadership” sounds like a specialized skill that one develops over years...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 5 min
5 Fake Solutions to Work-Life Balance
Most people I’ve encountered who work ridiculously long hours admit that they aren’t happy with their situation. Many of them see the...
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
What 10 Years Have Taught Me About Bosses
When I got my first job out of college, I admit that I had a distorted view of my boss’s role in my work life. After all, I had just...