Hardwiring Accountability

During these difficult economic times everyone is feeling pressured. The climate within most workplaces is far from relaxed. This tension leads to an intensification of behaviors for toxic bosses — the yellers & screamers, control-freak micro managers, insecure nightmares. Here are some steps you can take to cope the problem manager:

Don’t take it personally! […]

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Kelly Spors over at the Wall Street Journal recently wrote an article focusing on the importance of development plans for employees. Development plans are a great way to help employees realize you are focused on helping them achieve their goals. This leads to your employees feeling more valued and makes them less likely to seek […]

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The New York Times ran an article this week titled GoodBoss, BadBoss. Which are you? Several contributors advocate that evaluations be conducted at all levels in a company to reveal managers who might be the source for poor performance levels instead of employees. Hello? Aren’t managers and not employees always accountable for performance […]

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Many CEOs have told us that what keeps them up at night is that the organizational success they are experiencing today is only as good as their current line-up of leaders. And as today’s leaders give way to tomorrow’s, they need to safeguard that the momentum gained doesn’t fizzle out? Carrying the momentum of profitability […]

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