Tag Archives: Leaders & Managers
4 leadership lessons from Butch Cassidy
You’ve got vision, while the rest of the world wears bifocals. If that bit of swagger sums up your leadership style, you’ve got something in common with Butch Cassidy. Here are some other techniques that could help you, ...
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IKEA’s story: leading by design
When Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA in 1943, he didn’t sell furniture. He sold a variety of goods, including wallets and jewelry. Yet, IKEA became a worldwide success at selling simple, inexpensive assemble-it-yourself furniture through a series of shrewd ...
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Vanguard’s case study in judgment calls
Mabel Yu was a fairly low-level employee at Vanguard. But in 2009, Vanguard named Yu its analyst of the year. Here's why.
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4 ways to destroy an employee’s day
What makes an employee productive? Unproductive? “The key factor you can use to make employees miserable on the job is to simply keep them from making progress in meaningful work,” say researchers Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer.
- Centerpiece | Leaders & Managers | People Management
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Secret to winning: Forming alliances
In what may become a unifying theory of human behavior, biologist E.O. Wilson is positing a theory that “individual selection,” or competition to thrive and pass along one’s genes, inevitably loses out to “group selection.” Forming alliances ...
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Know your limits
Good leaders acknowledge their limitations, then “open up themselves to others,” says leadership author and coach John Baldoni. “People want to work with a manager who knows what he can and cannot do.”
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Leadership on the high seas
On the Maersk Alabama, the captain’s cool head, long experience and clear sense of duty saved the ship from pirates off Africa’s east coast. To understand why it did end so well for Captain Richard Phillips and his crew, ...
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Your team’s reality
Don’t ask your people to perform work they’re incapable of doing. “The only way you can truly appreciate what your team is or is not capable of is to see it firsthand or, better yet, do it yourself,” ...
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The Facebook culture: ‘Prove it’
As Facebook writes its own rulebook, part of its culture is healthy dissent, especially when it comes with proof.
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Best alternatives to PowerPoint
PowerPoint isn’t the only game in town. Our favorite alternatives to PowerPoint: SlideRocket, Google Docs and Prezi.
- Leaders & Managers | Office Technology | Web Tools
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