At 3:15am on an October morning, we were roused from bed by a kind neighbor pounding on our door: “Fire! You need to evacuate!” Seeing the bright orange glow of a fire, just a few miles away, we left very quickly and didn’t return for nearly 2 weeks until it was once again safe to … Continue reading Managing Through Business Disasters – 8 Lessons Learned from the California Wildfires
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My friend, Jack Harvey, shared a very interesting HBR article on the truth about being a nice boss, from author Emma Seppala. Here were her key conclusions. #1. High Stress Reduces Productivity If “tough” managers create tremendous levels of stress on employees, the effect can be very negative. High levels of workplace stress have been … Continue reading Can a Nice Boss Be Effective?
A struggle for many company leaders is resisting the urge to micromanage. What enabled you to rise in your organization was your ability to get things done – to take full responsibility of making something happen, based upon your own extraordinary skills in specific functional area. But now you are a leader. Yes, you probably … Continue reading Micromanagement Dragging You Down?
“If you can keep your head, when all about you are losing theirs…yours is the earth and everything in it” – From “If” by Rudyard Kipling.This is my all-time favorite poem. The message is simple: strong leaders keep their wits in difficult situations. They have learned that panic does not lead to sound decision making. Stress, … Continue reading Leadership and Keeping Your Head