Book recommendations for business leaders: 5/4/23

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Leaders are readers. Reading helps you discover ideas to try and expand your mental models. In this post, I point you to reviews of recent business books. You’ll find pointers to reviews of The Good Life: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash  »  Read More

Boss’s Tip of the Week: Learning Solutions to “Supervision” Problems

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Before you assume that a problem is a supervision problem, check to determine if it’s a learning problem. If your team member lacks the knowledge, skills or abilities to do their job acceptably, help them learn what’s needed. Consider a range of options. “Training” is only one of them. Today  »  Read More

Boss’s Tip of the Week: People who are not like you

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As you move through your career, there will be team members who are not like you in some way. It might be racially or ethnically or they might be a different gender. They might have different personal values, political opinions or religious beliefs. They might move faster than you or slower. They might crave small talk  »  Read More

Book Review Short Take: Rising Together

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There are, conservatively, 300 gazillion books published every year. No one has the time to list them, let alone read them or review them. That’s a problem because there’s a lot of value in many books you may not hear about because of the clutter.  “Short Takes” is my humble effort to cut through  »  Read More

Boss’s Tip of the Week: Challenging work is interesting work

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Help team members discover the interesting parts of their work by highlighting the challenges. You may want to set joint goals and challenge the team members to achieve them. The word “joint” is crucial. This is only one of 347 tips in my ebook, Become a Better Boss One Tip at a Time. Just promoted from  »  Read More

Book recommendations for business leaders: 4/13/23

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Leaders are readers. Reading helps you discover ideas to try and expand your mental models. In this post, I point you to reviews of recent business books. You’ll find pointers to reviews of You Need A Manifesto: How To Craft Your Convictions And Put Them To Work, The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion that Will  »  Read More

Leadership Storytelling

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When I was a little boy and my grandmother was still alive, we would travel to Philadelphia every Thanksgiving to spend the holiday with her. After dinner, my uncles would go to the front room. They set up a small black and white TV on a folding chair. If you asked them, they would say they were watching the Thanksgiving  »  Read More

Book Review: The Power of Discipline

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You would think that more than 3000 reviews averaging 4.6 would lead you to a great book. Instead, in this case, they led me to an awful book. The Power of Discipline is a slipshod bit of work. The writing/editing is terrible and the “evidence” supporting the author’s statements is often inaccurate. Let me be  »  Read More

Boss’s Tip of the Week: Ask for help

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There’s just no way that you’re going to be able to do everything that’s asked of you all by yourself. So, don’t act stupid. Ask for help. Ask for help from your boss. Ask for help from your team. Ask for help from your peers. Ask for help from anyone who might be able to help. This is only one of  »  Read More

Lessons from the Great Fishing Contest

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It was the day of the Great Fishing Contest. I was about seven years old. We lived in a small town with a creek that ran right through the center of the town square. Every year, the town held a fishing contest. There were prizes for the most fish, the biggest fish, the smallest fish, and all sorts of other  »  Read More

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