Change is a constant. It’s always been with us, it always will be, and it’s never easy. That’s something that doesn’t change.
But the challenge of dealing with it is greater today because the pace of that change is accelerating. Only fifty years ago, we had decades to adjust to significant changes. Today we often have only a year or two. Science, technology, transportation, and communications are advancing so rapidly that all of life seems to be in constant transition.
That means that at times you may have to be ready and …

These days change is a constant, there is always something changing somewhere for some reason. It is almost impossible to work anywhere without going through some type of change. Change isn’t a bad thing and in today’s business world change is necessary to survive. However, if not executed properly change can be damaging to a company, it can negatively impact employee morale as well as disrupting productivity. No matter how big or small the change is, employees will have some type of reaction to it and often it is the …

Baseball Manager Terry Francona’s leadership was key to the Red Sox success in sweeping the World Series. Separately, reporters Kevin Thomas of The Portland Press Herald and Jackie Macmullan of The Boston Globe published compelling portrayals of Francona. Here are eight essential lessons in leadership for any situation, illustrated by Francona’s winning example in their stories.
1. Stay calm. Francona is known for his patient temperament, even in the face of high stakes games. Players report that the boss’s patience helps them win. When you’re calm, those who work with you, …

Many will claim that the difficulty in conveying our message across to our listeners accurately is what makes communication so hard. Here, we will look at why listening to messages from our team may be harder, and how learning to do so is essential to maintain respect for our team members.
As leaders, we often hear advice like “listen first, then speak”, or “seek first to understand, then be understood”. Indeed, such conventional wisdom often bears much truth. All too often, many leaders, from ground managers to senior executives, get too …

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The One Minute Manager

The objective of the book ‘The One Minute Manager’ by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson is to define the effective managers in this dynamic world of business where various external and internal factors influence their performance. The author does it through a search mission of a young man whose quest is to find managers who make both- their organization and people win with their managerial skills. The author talks about a continuum, where one end is occupied by tough or autocratic managers who make their organization win …

Colin Powell is one of the military generals who pursued a successful career in government under the leadership of former President George W. Bush. During his term as a military general and later as Secretary of State of the United States, he learned a lot of lessons that helped him become one of the respected leaders all over the world. He shares a lot of his leadership secrets. The leadership secrets of Colin Powell are not secrets, really. He managed to discover a number of principles he used in managing …

Warren Buffett is in the news these days after publicly expressing his confidence in the future of American corporations and recently investing $8 Billion Dollars to purchase interests in GE and Goldman Sachs. With the recent stock market turmoil, many look to the world’s wealthiest man for guidance, and rightly so. Buffett is widely recognized as an exceptional judge of corporate value. “The Oracle of Omaha,” as he is known, is arguably the most successful investor in history. Corporate leaders regularly make the trek to Omaha, Nebraska, seeking his wisdom. …

Now, you may be thinking as you read the title, how on Earth is our relationship with our bosses relevant to leadership lessons? After all, we’re all interested in managing our team and business but not our superiors. Well, the reason is simple. The way our boss manages us would affect how we function, and how we ultimately manage our team too. For instance, let’s say our boss does not have much trust in our leadership or management skills and resultantly restricts our freedom in making decisions. He would not …

The art of delegation does not always come naturally to all leaders or managers. While some leaders may effectively assign and allocate sub tasks to his team members, others experience difficulty in grappling with the subtleties of the skill, such as maintaining control over the process, or avoiding the crossing of the line between delegating and “arrowing”. Regardless, we all know that effective delegation is a critical skill in becoming a successful leader, for this skill allows us to effectively manage the team to achieve outcome that we alone can …

It may sound absurd if I tell you that despite our certainty that our teams know the standards we expect of them, some of the members would still be unclear or confused. Many of us may have found ourselves to have experienced falling into a pitfall where we assumed that the team knew what we expected only to have them deviated from the standards. Frustrating, wasn’t it? We shall examine in a closer detail the art of clarifying standards in this article.
I believe the importance of clarifying standards is fairly …