Fiction, Falsehoods, and Other Myths About Working Mothers
A recent feature in The Atlantic by Anne-Marie Slaughter focuses on the workplace gender struggle. What seems like a clever title, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” is actually a blunt article offering practical ideas that organizations could easily implement. Why implement her ideas? Because these ideas could help organizations recruit and retain valuable […]
Coaching Corporate Athletes
Executive Coaching helps strong managers become even stronger. Their success is ultimately your success as a leader. The same can be said of Olympic coaches and the athletes they coach. A recent article in the Harvard Business Review looked at various coaching tactics and strengths that have helped coaches produce winning athletes in high […]
How Organizations Can Help Turn the Corner on Recession
There’s been some debate on the New York Times Opinion page concerning the relationship between unemployment and skill gaps. Unemployment has wavered to and fro since the recession, yet many employers have been unable to fill over half of their positions with qualified employees, states the CEO of ManpowerGroup in one of the articles. On […]
Situational Leadership: Identifying Your Leadership Strengths
You could say that leaders lead based on situations. Yet Robyn Benincasa in her Fast Company article 6 Leadership Styles and When You Should Use Them claims that “A leader leads based on strengths, not titles”. So what’s a leader to do? Combine the two ideas. In other words, none of the leadership styles discussed […]
This is the Year for Gen Y to Speak Up
According to Matt Miller’s recent Washington Post opinion article, Americans under the age of 35 are getting overlooked, especially when it comes to public policy. Student debt is soaring at unprecedented rates; Pell Grants today cover approximately 33% of public college costs, compared to 70% in previous decades. In addition, Gen Y is having a […]
The Untouchables that Bar Innovation
“Myths are ideas that own and govern us by means that are not logical but psychological, and therefore rooted in the depths of our soul. These are ideas that we have mythologized because they give no problems, they facilitate judgment; in a word, they reassure us.” Roberto Verganti quotes Italian philosopher Umberto Galimberti in a […]
When Introverts Lead
Everyone is talking about personality these days. Consequently, a leader’s personality and every move is often highly scrutinized in the media. This can work for extroverted leaders, who gain energy from others. However, it can be difficult for an introverted leader who prefers to think before speaking and gains energy from within. A Fast Company […]
A Stable Environment Needs a Boring Leader
We want to work with leaders who are charismatic, fast-paced and charging ahead, right? Maybe not, according to Joel Stein in his Harvard Business Review on Boringness: The Secret to Great Leadership. Stein identifies boringness as a trait he repeatedly found in multiple leaders while conducting research for his new book. One could argue that […]
