Food for Thought – Clients
If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present
By Rasmus Hougaard & Jacqueline Carter Some years ago, we worked with a director of a multinational pharma company who’d been receiving poor grades for engagement and leadership effectiveness. Although he tried to change, nothing seemed to work. As his frustration grew, he started tracking the time he spent with each of his direct reports — and every…
Read MoreResearch: The More Essential Your Job Is to Your Company, the Happier You’ll Be
Say you’re a lawyer, and you’re evaluating competing job offers — one from a law firm, and the other for a general counsel role in a tech company. Which one should you take? This is a complicated question, and one that professionals face all the time. If you’re a marketer, you have to decide whether you’d…
Read More4 Mistakes You’re Still Allowed to Make (No Matter How Experienced You Are)
By Sara McCord You know the term “rookie mistake” and you know that when you’re new at something, you’ll stumble and fall a few times as you learn. But, the permission to make mistakes in the name of learning fades away as you gain more experience. You move into the category where you’re supposed to…
Read MoreWhy We Can’t Look Away From Our Screens
By Claudia Dreifus In a new book, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” the social psychologist Adam Alter warns that many of us — youngsters, teenagers, adults — are addicted to modern digital products. Not figuratively, but literally addicted. Dr. Alter, 36, is an associate professor at the Stern…
Read MoreThe Simple Formula for Communicating Hard Messages at Work
By Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew, Founders of TheMuse.com The following is an excerpt from The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career, which hits the shelves in April 2017. One of the biggest mistakes people inadvertently make when communicating with others is passing off their feelings, perspectives, or observations as…
Read MoreMotivating People Starts with Having the Right Attitude
By Monique Valcour Most leaders know what strong motivation looks like. When I ask leadership development clients to describe the type of motivation they’d like to see in their teams, they mention qualities such as persistence, being a self-starter, having a sense of accountability for and commitment to achieving results, and being willing to go the…
Read More4 Things You Should Do at the End of Every Meeting
By Kat Boogaard Meetings. I can hear the collective groan from here. Your days are filled with what seems like endless sit-downs, conversations, and brainstorming sessions. And, honestly, you wouldn’t mind — as long as you felt like you were actually accomplishing something. But, when it comes to meetings, we all tend to fall into the…
Read MoreMillienials Have Their Upsides Too
In the past, I’ve come down pretty hard on millennials for being self-centered and questioned their claims to be technologically more savvy than previous generations. However, there are six areas where, IMHO, millennials are a distinct improvement: 1. They’re more literate. Prior to the millennials, literature was on the ropes. Book sales were dropping; literacy…
Read MoreMoney vs. Talent
3 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Can Solve Their Talent Problem By Rebecca Doherty & Alfonso Pulido The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Bringing light to Africa, mobile banking to Bangladesh, low-cost health care to Nepal, or better school lunches to the American cafeteria: In all these cases,…
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