Sure, it’s important to keep up with your business reading, but you should read some fiction, too. It’s fun and it engages you. You get lost in fiction in a way you usually won’t with factual...
Boss’s Tip of the Week: Read outside your field
Some of the most powerful, breakthrough ideas happen when you adopt practices that are common in other fields. The easiest way to find those practices is to spend a little time every week reading blogs and websites...
Boss’s Tip of the Week: Learning Solutions to “Supervision” Problems
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...
Boss’s Tip of the Week: People who are not like you
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...
Boss’s Tip of the Week: Challenging work is interesting work
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...