The corporate world has seen several new changes in the past few years. The rapid innovations in technology, especially the Internet, have taken globalization to an entirely new level. Companies from all over the world have become more connected than ever. Similarly, diversification of the workforce is at an all-time…...
5 Ways to Be a Leader Your Employees Will Respect
You just hired the perfect employee. His or her overall business acumen runs as deep as his or her functional knowledge. He or she leads with empathy, is an expert communicator and perfectly rounds out your already high-performing diverse workforce. Now, the goal is to empower your new hire to create his or her life's best work. To…...
9 Most Essential Leadership Attributes of a Great Leader
Great leaders are like mirrors. What they want to see in their team they often exhibit in themselves, even if that means facing things they’d prefer not to.Can a handful of leadership attributes define every great leader? Or could you have a combination of many skills and still be a…...
How Finance Leaders Can Equip Their Team To Tackle Change
In the face of economic turmoil, agility has taken on a new meaning for organisations. For modern enterprises, agility has become a defining characteristic of businesses that can better anticipate what is coming, act quickly when faced with change, and more decisively respond to the demands of customers, market shifts,…...
Are You the Leader Your Work Team Needs?
Being the leader of a work team is not only about distributing or assigning activities and waiting for progress to be reported, it goes much further than that. Today more than ever, being a leader represents a great challenge for the people who perform this role. Why? Because the generations…...
How to Succeed Without Being the Smartest Person in the Room
As part of a set of research interviews, my colleague at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), Martin Mocker, and I once asked technology staffers at 40 big companies what impact they thought they were having on their companies. Sadly, many said that they didn’t think they were having…...
Of All the Complaints I’ve Heard about Bosses, I’ve Never Heard this One
Of all the complaints I’ve heard about leaders, I’ve never heard anyone complain…“I wish my boss would stop encouraging me. I get too much encouragement.”It’s easy to miss the mark when you call people to face new challenges.Good intentions backfire. Unexpected resistance knocks you for a loop. Perhaps you misread…...
The 5 biggest misconceptions about being a human manager
Too often we hide behind our titles and adopt a suit of armour that has been handed down by generations of strong managers. If we were to lose that suit of armour, and become human, then surely we will show weakness that will be exploited. On the contrary, human managers…...
