Don’t promote too quickly

  • January 01, 2013

Holly Graf was booted as commander of a warship in 2010 for “cruelty and mal­­treatment” of her 400-member crew. According to the inspector general,...

How to Create an Employee Performance Log

  • January 01, 2013

Some managers tend to evaluate team members based on their most recent positive or negative encounter. This hap­pens most often when a manager has no record of an...

Sam Adams used propaganda as a tool

  • December 26, 2012

Sometimes, leaders must resort to subterfuge. That’s what Samuel Adams and other colonists did to whip up hostility against the English in the late 1760s. One of...

A blueprint to boost self-awareness

  • December 25, 2012

Leaders with emotional intelligence rarely possess it by accident. Their high self-awareness lets them see cause-effect relationships between their feelings and their...

Nail every deadline

  • December 21, 2012

Everyone handles deadlines differently, but if you want to keep your career on track, you need a systematic approach to make sure you’re meeting them. Here are a...

Humbled, a CEO learns to listen better

  • December 21, 2012

Soon after John Heer joined North Mississippi Health Services as CEO in 2004, he decided to improve how his leadership team managed their employees. They evaluated...