LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

Brief  Create clarity for your team by constantly communicating the company's priorities, ensuring employees understand them, identifying behaviors that achieve those goals and finding ways to eliminate obstacles, write Karin Hurt and David Dye. "Creating clarity...

Brief  Leaders can better mentor and retain high achievers by creating a culture of learning that challenges them and plays into their natural passions, writes Alaina Love, CEO of Purpose Linked Consulting. "When you model the behaviors that high achievers value, you...

Brief  Leaders who develop "awareness intelligence" can be more present, perceptive and reflective, writes Dorothy Siminovitch, founder and president of Gestalt Coaching Works LLC. "Reflecting on what they most value, and practicing with ways to prioritize those...

Brief  CEOs have six key high-level duties involving purpose, alignment, stakeholders and their personal effectiveness, writes McKinsey senior partner Scott Keller. "This is actually quite a liberating idea, because being great at being the CEO does not mean you have...

Brief  Most people are subject to narrow lanes of thinking, incomplete knowledge and a society that demands binary outcomes rather than probabilities, writes Morgan Housel. Housel offers 17 observations on human thinking, including how optimism and pessimism influence...

Brief  John Stoker tells of a college roommate who literally tried to eat as much of a bicycle as he could one year, and while most of us have less intensive goals, we can all benefit from starting small, having a plan, being consistent and adjusting as setbacks...

Brief  To challenge yourself is to try something new, scale up your skill set or explore "new attitudes, behaviors, skills, and practices," writes Dan Rockwell. "Advancement begins at the point of discomfort, when you try something you haven't done," Rockwell adds....

Brief Companies should reset their relationship with employee mental health in terms of policies, culture and training, writes Zhike Lei, director of the Center for Applied Research at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. "Leaders must pay close attention to how...

Brief  Middle managers can be better leaders for younger generations, including Generation Z, by being communicative, "patient and flexible" even as you establish clear expectations and standards, writes Mike Monroe of Vector Marketing. "View yourself as the face of...