Beware the Busy Manager

Only about 10 percent of managers work purposefully to complete important tasks, according to a 10-year study of managerial behavior across a variety of industries. The other 90 percent self-sabotage by busily engaging in non-purposeful activities, procrastinating, detaching from their work and needlessly spinning their wheels.

General Tommy Franks on Leadership

Terence Traut from Entelechy, Inc. interviews General Tommy Franks to identify management techniques.

Magnificent Pillars of Leadership

What's the secret of CEOs?

Everyday Leadership: Putting People First

Habits of a good leader. How a good manager works with her employees.

Lessons from My Grandmother

My Grandother is till teaching me lessons on her 98th birthday.

Power Groups

Anytime we find ourselves part of a group, we feel some susceptibility to peer pressure and/or the opinions of others in the group. The more esteem we feel for the group, the more their opinions matter to us, and therefore the more we feel pressured to align our own opinions with those of the group. Even when we don't really agree with the group, we will often go along with the group in order to be rewarded instead of punished, or liked instead of scorned.

How to Effectively Lead a Hip Hop & MTV Generation - Nu Leadership Series

Examine how an effective leader understands his cultural environment and can adapt to a Hip Hop & MTV Generation. Are you flexible enough to lead? Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership.

Get Bad at What You Do (Did)

Leader, manager, foreman, team leader, superintendent, supervisor, boss, coordinator, etc. These are all titles used to describe that person with some responsibility for getting a job done by directing other people. It might describe you, or someone you work with. But that is not what you are being paid to do.

Cultivating Leadership

Over the last two decades I have consulted to, provided workshops for, and delivered keynote presentations on leadership to a variety of restaurant chains and individual restaurant managers. I contin...

Communicating Your Organizational Values: Maximizing Performance - Nu Leadership Series

Examine how organizational values impact the day-to-day employee. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Listen More, Speak Less -- 5 Steps to Better Listening

Hearing is easy. Listening is hard. Hearing comes naturally. Listening takes work. Dyanamic leaders are good listeners. This article lists five steps to improve your listening skills.

Being Demonized As A Leader

Being demonized is one of the worst things that can happen to a leader. The author provides countermeasures to demonization that leaders can employ throughout their careers.

How to Build Loyal Followers

Legitimate Power, also know as earned or respect power, is a combination of respect, reputation, and your history. Reputation is the sum total of how you have conducted yourself in your professional and personal affairs. If you have shown respect, integrity, and character in all your dealings, people will know it.

Hurricanes and Leadership Issues

During the most extreme stress and trying times we often find true leaders. During that time of need when things look hopeless we often find natural leaders and there seems to be a gene for it and in any group of 20 people you will generally find 3 or 4 in the United States Population.

The Best Decision Makers in the World

Who are the best decision makers in the world? The people that make fast decisions that mean the difference between success and failure. How do they do it? Make a decision to find out today.