Frank and I were recently talking about the lack of mentors in the average work place. I was ranting about how busy we all are, so of course it’s hard to help other employees along when two factors are preventing most folks from doing this: 1. The new entitled generations stir the pot, a lot, […]
Tag Archives | Leadership
The Straight and Narrow
By Agent N1 on March 3, 2015 in Fireside Chats, Riffs & Ideas, Tip of the Day, Weekly Survival, Work Life Balance
Sometimes, the way forward is clear. Sometimes it is not. The only advice I can give is to follow your compass. This means following your own values, even if it means you have to rewrite the script or define new rules for your tribe or wait for a different path to show its way. Have […]
Channelling Success
There are times in our lives when we are on top of the world. The Gods are on our side and we’ve hit a streak of good fortune. Or we’ve simply found our “zen” and we can relax about the things we cannot control. And then there are times when we’ve hit an all-time low. […]
Managing Appearances Part 2
In an earlier blog I shared a story about a boss who was more concerned about managing appearances than delivering quality product. Thus not always pleasing his/her constituents. But what happens when you aren’t really good at neither managing appearances nor pleasing your audience? Seems to me that these are two critical aspects to keeping […]
The Giants Among Us
When sitting down with a past work acquaintance yesterday over coffee, Jim shared some interesting insights about ‘big personalities’ that I thought amusing enough, and true enough, to write about. We both referred to a certain someone whose name won’t be mentioned, but who sees himself as a sort of icon. He asked if it […]
What Country Leaders Are Doing Wrong
I am not interested in joining the diatribe of Obama vs Boehner as a Covert Agent (since I have plenty to say in my own skin outside of this venue)! I am interested in studying what they are doing wrong as leaders with respect to “who’s the customer, and who’s the boss”. As a friend […]
You Work For Me
“You work for me”, a friend told his boss and coworkers, mostly architects, who were talking about a client project and clearly forgetting about the customer. I stopped him to ask him what their reaction was. “They all agreed”, he laughed. He was slightly disappointed that they didn’t argue otherwise so he could engage them […]
Becoming Leaders
What does it take to believe in your ability to execute leadership? I’ve struggled with this. As a woman, I know the feeling of being surrounded by highly competent and successful men, all superior in rank, and letting my competitive nature take over. Outside, I feel an urge to prove that I can keep up […]
Leading Change
As I was reading an article on Culture and Chief Executives, I was thinking about where I’ve been, what I’ve experienced, and what has both worked and not worked. A company’s culture is the collection of self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing, the patterns that determine “the way we do things around here.” […]
Managing with Harmony
Inspired by an interview I heard today, here’s a burning question. How many people out there manage with the goal of creating and maintaining harmony at work? I’d like to think that I do, but sometimes I am such a boundary pusher that I’m probably working too hard to achieve harmony – and creating dissonance […]
