FREE White Paper: How the ABC’s of Leadership Behavior Impact Safety Management Systems
Abstract: This paper focuses on how leadership behaviors as Activators and Consequences support or undermine an effective Safety Management System.
Description: The basic ABC’s of traditional employee based behavioral safety programs are well imbedded within the safety community. The use of Activators stimulating Behaviors [...]

Are you one of those workaholic, 110-percenters who isn’t happy unless you are doing 14 things at once?  If you are not one, do you have a person like this on your staff?  There are still people who measure their collegues’ worth to the company by how late they work and how many meetings they [...]

Some leaders are more fun to work for than others. Why? Because, consciously or unconsciously, they operate in a way that makes it more fun and more interesting for everyone concerned. 

IMAGINATION allows us to escape the predictable. Artists, scientists [engineers], and poets use the power of imagination every day. For those of us who found it in playing the game [basketball], it has shaped our joy in countless ways. It has enriched us to feel the thrill of fresh creation. It has put us in [...]

James Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape, was described in U.S. News & World Report as a Silicon Valley outsider.  His is from Mississippi, not an engineer, and the product of the highly stratified, shirt-and-tie sales side of IBM.  One of Mr. Barksdale’s maxims that endeared him to his employees was formulated at a management retreat [...]

Authority can be pretty powerful stuff – especially if a person is not used to having it.  It has a tendency to go to people’s heads; sometimes there is no stopping it.
And unfortunately, the more authority a person has, and the more promptly and unquestionably people respond, the greater the danger of forgetting that authority [...]