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June 16th, 2021

                    What’s hot? Recruiting and Hiring top the list of workplace challenges in 2021. So what?       Poor applicant quality is the top challenge related to recruitment, which may be partially a result of employers’ recruiting practices.* What to do?       To improve the quality of hiring […]

May 19th, 2021

What’s hot?       In today’s chaotic business world, leaders need more than a good brain. They need wisdom.                   So what?             In order to develop others and the organization you must have more than a high IQ.  You need smarts plus a unique combo: role clarity and a […]

May 12th, 2021

What’s hot?      If you read only one leadership book this year, make it Tom Peter’s, “Excellence Now: Extreme Humanism.” So what?           Tom humbly refers to his leadership advice as a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious).   “Excellence Now” is his swan song – the culmination of a 43-year search for individual and organizational excellence.  […]

May 5th, 2021

What’s hot? A PwC survey* reveals that few US executives and employees are prepared to completely abandon the office.  Most want a hybrid workplace.                   So what?   According to PwC, a blended workplace can meet employer and employee needs and transform company culture, employee engagement, and the […]

April 28th, 2021

What’s hot? Research reveals that although Zoom meetings can cause fatigue, the primary cause of participant exhaustion is NOT the length of the meetings, it is the absence of belonging.*                       So what? People need to belong and be included before they can achieve peak […]

April 14th, 2021

                    What’s hot?  In over twenty-five years of experience in business, I’ve seen how detrimental constant feedback can be, how it chips away at our powers of discernment and self-confidence.                                -Carol Sanford, in foreword to “No More Feedback, Cultivate Consciousness at Work” So what?  As a […]

April 7th, 2021

What’s hot?       According to O.C. Tanner Institute surveys, organizations that had layoffs or furloughs during the worst of the COVID pandemic suffered a significant setback in terms of employee performance. So what?        Those organizations experienced a: 91% decline in employee Net Promoter Score (a measure of employee loyalty) 57% increase in disengagement 42% increase in […]

April 1st, 2021

What’s hot?  Profits don’t come from how much you know but from how much you care. Overwhelming evidence of the profitability to be gained from compassion can be found in the book “Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference” by two doctors, Steven Trzeciak and Anthony Mazzarelli.           […]

March 24th, 2021

What’s hot?  Caution! Remote workers tend to put in excessive hours and prolonged screen time.                   So what?  Despite working longer hours, a recent Slack survey reveals that only 12% of remote workers want to go back to working entirely in an office. A whopping 72% want […]

March 17th, 2021

What’s hot?    The Academy of Management Journal reports that showing kindness can boost performance by minimizing exhaustion, cynicism and ineffectiveness. So what?        Even before a leader establishes credibility, those who project warmth are more effective than those who lead with toughness*.                             […]

March 11th, 2021

What’s hot?    Tom Peters, world renowned leadership guru, advises                                                Success begets failure…Circumstances change, and the strengths that led to your first success often become weaknesses.                   So what?        Savvy leaders know that overuse of a strength can become a limitation.   However, Peter’s advice advocates halting reliance […]

March 3rd, 2021

                            What’s hot?       74% of employers admit they have hired the wrong person for a position* So what?   The cost of recruiting, hiring, retention and pay can be as high as $240,000 for a bad hire** What to do?       Recognize that the candidate’s […]

February 24th, 2021

What’s hot?      The job of managing is a whole lot harder in the COVID era.  Four out of ten managers report low confidence in their ability to manage remotely and to keep teams motivated over the long term*.                       So what?           That suggests a lot […]

February 17th, 2021

                      What’s hot? A new book, by Adam Grant, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know  (Viking, 2021) warns of the dangers of getting trapped in a beginner’s bubble of flawed assumptions – where you don’t know what you don’t know. So […]

February 10th, 2021

What’s hot? Ina Catrinescu, writing for info@INA.fyi, reports that when you get ticked at your boss, it is because the boss reminds you of the untapped leader within you.                             So what? Blaming your leader deprives you of an opportunity to affirm […]

February 3rd, 2021

                    What’s hot?    U. K. leaders report crisis survival learnings in Management Today (Jan 7, 2021) So what?   Successful leaders change their own behavior AND how they behave with their teams during times of crisis. What to do?  Here is what three British execs learned during […]

January 6th, 2021

              What’s hot?      Excellent advice from a world-renowned leadership guru… In the course of the day, week, year, figure out how to take a pause that refreshes…Work consciously at destressing. The idea is be absolutely, positively ‘strategic’; in no way is it merely a nice thing to do.                                    […]

December 17th, 2020

                              What’s Hot? ‘Tis the season when we typically look to the past with fondness, the present with awe, and the future with great expectations. So what? This holiday season is unlike any other – capping off a year unlike any […]