A recent HBR blog piece, Taking Over from an Incompetent Team Leader, provides some very helpful advice to leaders who are replacing predecessors who were not effective. One of the suggestion is to “explain your behavior; don’t make team members guess.” This is really excellent advice. Believe it or not though, new leaders often struggle…
A recent HBR piece advises leaders: Be Yourself, but Carefully, proposing that they adopt selective authenticity in their business interactions. The advice is reinforced in a related podcast by one of the authors. Here are some key points from the HBR authors integrated with my thoughts: 1.Always Be Genuine. Don’t make up stories or exaggerate…
Recently, I watched the movie Goodbye Columbus for the first time since I saw it in the theater in 1969. The romance film is best known for Ali MacGraw’s debut as an actress in a leading role and for its sad ending, in contrast to the happy ending of The Graduate, a much better known…
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong impulsively fires an employee, Abel Lenz, last Friday for filming Mr. Armstrong during a conference call delivering a tough message about upcoming cost reduction and layoffs. Then the CEO follows-up with a memo of apology. Not surprisingly, the media gets all over Mr. Armstrong describing him as “going viral.” then, perhaps…