When I was a child my father, a mechanic who repaired train steam engines, rode his bicycle to and from work each day. He did this for 50 years and expressed his loyalty and commitment to the Canadian National Railways, a company that hired him...
For Christmas, I received one of the most fascinating and informative books I have yet to read in my 65 years of research and teaching managerial leadership. The book, "The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World," by Dr. Paul Morland of the University...
“Leaders who choose resilience over defeat, not only gain energy to sustain change, but also gain happiness from doing meaningful work, which makes a difference to all involved.” —U.S. President George Washington (1795) Thoughtful team leaders and team members are now more than ever eager to...
What has changed in today’s workplace? Today’s workforce has far more racial, cultural, and gender diversity than prior generations, according to Jim Clifton and Jim Harter in “It's the Manager: Gallup Finds the Quality of Managers and Team Leaders is the Single Biggest Factor in...
Culture is a set of living relationships working toward a shared goal. Culture is not something we are. It’s something we do! It is made up of institutions, practices, beliefs, moods, styles, metabeliefs, and other artifacts. Paul Spiegelman, co-founder of the Small Giants Community, a peer-group...
“Being a millennial doesn’t have to mean living in our parents’ basement, growing an artisanal beard, and drinking craft beer or single malt scotch. Midlife doesn’t have to be a crisis. And we don’t have to be a number anymore. We’re relevant. We’re ever blooming....
Culture and the Organization An organization is a machine consisting of two major parts: culture and people. In an organization, tough love is effective for achieving both great work and great relationships. A believability-weighted idea meritocracy is the optimal system for reaching effective decisions. Make our...
It wasn’t until Oct. 6, 1963, that I discovered that many things I had come to believe as normal here in Canada were different in other places. I had just landed in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, which had just suffered a hostile...
The new service leadership model advocates that the leader who resides at the top of the organization works for those in its lower part. First advocated by Robert Greenleaf, founder of the modern Servant Leadership movement and the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, it is...
Who wants to change? We all do! Almost all of us are nervous about change. Many of us will resist it—consciously or subconsciously. Sometimes those fears are well founded—the change really may have a negative impact on us. In many cases, however, the target population for...