Wired For Authenticity
The seven practices of authentic leaders
The Forgotten Employee – Managers
Why manager training is vital to your business
Awakened Leadership
A behavioral roadmap
The 21st Century Executive
How to become one
Wired For Authenticity
The seven practices of authentic leaders
The Forgotten Employee – Managers
Why manager training is vital to your business
Awakened Leadership
A behavioral roadmap
The 21st Century Executive
How to become one
What do these things have in common? • You hired a star employee with excellent skills but the employee doesn’t play well with others. • A misunderstanding with a top client resulted in lost business. • You lost the sale because you made assumptions about the other stakeholder’s values. • You are caught off guard because your managers didn’t keep you in the loop. • Your family business suffers because no one wants to admit where the real problems are.
We forget our most basic goal in business, which is to create relationships with clients, customers, prospects, colleagues, shareholders…and at the center of it all, employees. If employees are to thrive and unlock the next great idea that will make everyone else happy, they require a relationship with the people around them, starting with their boss.
Starting a business from scratch is different from stepping in and adding value to an existing company. Entrepreneurs love the challenges, risks, and thrills of doing what others have not done—envisioning new horizons, exploring the unknown, moving to the next peak and eventually reaching the top.
You can learn a lot about a tree’s age and experience by observing the inside of a cut trunk’s rings. The innermost ring shows a tree’s first year of growth. Each concentric ring typically shows a tree’s year of growth. Aspen rings are fainter than other trees. With the light colored wood, the rings blend together, making it more challenging to define an aspen’s age.
You see detrimental team norms in business everywhere. The practices of most teams contradict basic human nature. They deny individual team members’ emotional needs and disregard the fundamental wiring of their brains.
Many companies stand to benefit from having more women on their boards. What’s the way forward?
Human kindness, dignity and stewardship are the hallmarks of California-based health care system's culture, Dignity Health. Dr. Wendy Combs, Director of Organizational Development at Dignity’s Health, offers some insights about healthy culture creation and the development of employees who embody skills that make them better leaders and create more caring and sustainable organizations.