Management consultant William N. Yeomans records these two principles in his book, 1000 Things You Never Learned in Business School (Penguin Books, New York). The Principle of Misdirected Expectations: The less time you spend with your people discussing what you expect them to accomplish, the more chance they will accomplish something. The Principle of Autocratic Inaction:  [...]

Where others see bewildering complexity,             Leaders see simplicity and turn stumbling stones into stepping stones Where others perceive uncertainty as threats,             Leaders see it as fertile grounds for opportunity and are willing to take risks. Where others cringe from change,             Leaders make friends with it, welcome it, embrace it. Where others grasp [...]

You can’t get people to do their best work simply by giving them intelligent instructions.  It takes more than that to develop enthusiastic cooperation and real teamwork.  Before you can get the best out of people, you have to make them feel like giving it. A smart boss takes a sincere interest in everyone who [...]

It’s that time of year – as some sports seasons are starting up, others are winding down.  A good way to win a friendly wager is to challenge the devoted baseball, basketball, or hockey fan (especially in New York) with this question: Who played for baseball’s New York Yankees, basketball’s New York Knicks, and hockey’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]