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The 5 Tactics of Teamwork: A Blueprint for Team Managemen
A recent Gallup study discovered something odd: Teams with fewer than 10 members have the highest and the lowest levels of engagement in Gallup's database. Our scientists say this illustrates how easily smallish teams can be swayed in one direction or the other. Of...
Do People Trust You? Advice For Building Trust and Inspiring Confidence
One afternoon as I was passing through the airport on my way home, I ran into a colleague of mine, Stephen M. R. Covey, the author of the book "The Speed of Trust." We stopped and exchanged a few pleasantries. I could tell that he needed to get through security, so I...
9 Questions Great Leaders Ask of Themselves Daily
Being a leader we often find ourselves asking a lot of questions. How is it going?What’s the problem? How could we do better? and so on. But how many of us turn that inquisitive mind towards ourselves, and ask ourselves those probing questions which might help...
Let’s Commit to More Effective Meeting
As I write this, it’s early January, which means it’s time to begin tackling our New Year’s resolutions. Here’s a resolution you may not have had on your list but would be worth adding: committing to more effective meetings. Poorly run meetings are assuredly as old as...
Creating a Strategic Plan That Considers Capital Elements
In our hypercompetitive world, where long-standing competitive advantages can be wiped out in a matter of months by plucky, well-funded upstarts, corporate strategy is no longer optional. Professional capital is finding companies at embryonic stages of development,...
Construction Drones
Drones provide construction teams with an overhead view of jobsites, materials, machinery and people. Contractors are using the autonomous flying machines to record images and videos that help optimize everything from grading plans and operations to identifying...
How Do the Best Leaders Avoid Miscommunication
Being able to communicate effectively is perhaps the most important of all leadership skills. It is what enables us to pass information to other people and to understand what is being said to us, the foundation of productivity and strong relationships. It was Dale...
Essential Leadership Skills For The Roaring ’20
The roaring 1920s bring to mind economic prosperity, jazz music, new ways of dancing, expanded choices and the rejection of traditional moral values. We are entering a new roaring '20s with many similarities that will necessarily redefine the way we view leadership....
How one Question Helps Bring Your Leadership Signature to Life
I love the idea of a "leadership signature" suggested in "5 Rules for Leading in a Digital World" in a recent issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. After all, our signatures are unique representations of ourselves to the world, and the same can be said for our...