One of the greatest challenges for many new managers lies in a self-transformation from task master to leader. This transition involves the ability to effectively delegate responsibilities to other team members and empower them to succeed. Harvard Business Review Contributor Jesse Sostrin discusses this common management dilemma and offers strategies to help streamline your workflow, […]
No company is immune from economic and business model turmoil. But how you handle the challenges is what separates thriving companies from the ones who fail. When your company is faces tough situations, stable, responsive, respectful leadership is the compass that guides your team through the most turbulent storms. Chee Tung Leong, CEO of HR […]
Back in the 90’s, my clients kept saying things like “We get a lot out of your training programs. How come all your stuff isn’t in a book?” Good question. So, in 2002 I wrote Bad Behavior, People Problems & Sticky Situations: A Toolbook for Managers and Team Leaders. I designed it to be a quick […]
After focusing on the ideas around respect and respectful leadership for many years, I finally decided to put pen to paper – or least fingers to keyboard – and, with the help of author Walter G. Meyer, write my next book which is called The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation, A Business Fable. In this […]
Recently, I was invited by the Southern California Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association to speak on Respectful Leadership at their Fall 2014 meeting hosted by the giant pharmaceutical company Genentech. The room was filled with executives, staff, physicians and even clinical researchers, who seemed very attentive and interested in the concepts within and practices […]
Those who follow politics know that nothing generates news and commentary like a sex scandal. And when a big state Governor gets caught up in a sex scandal, well it can become a media feeding frenzy. And so it proved in early March of 2008, when the New York Times reported that Governor Eliot Spitzer […]