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Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders by Vineet Nayar A young manager accosted me the other day. "I've been reading all about leadership, have implemented several ideas, and think I'm doing a good job at leading my team. How will I know when I've crossed over from being a manager to a leader?" he wanted to know. I didn't have a ready answer and it's a complicated issu..

The Two Most Important Words by Robert A. Eckert When I arrived at Mattel, the company was losing almost a million dollars a day, the bonus pool was empty, and equity awards were underwater. I believed that those challenges were surmountable. On my first day, at a “town hall” gathering in the cafeteria, I said, “I know how this works. We will turn things around, and beca..

To Give Your Employees Meaning, Start With Mission by Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. -Jim Collins Do you feel that you have work worth doing? If so, you are among the more fortunate of our readers. If not, you are among the many who..

How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team by Roger Schwarz You are holding your weekly team leadership meeting. You are discussing with your direct reports how to handle the project delays that have caused the team to miss its quarterly numbers. You know that Ted — one of your direct reports — contributed to missing the numbers by missing two key deadlines. Y..

Building Effective Teams Isn't Rocket Science, But It's Just as Hard by Douglas R. Conant Over my 35 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit worlds, I've been part of hundreds, if not thousands, of teams of all shapes and sizes: large, small, formal, informal, "real", "virtual" — and the list goes on. I've also led some of these teams as a Fortune 300 CEO, an..

Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress by Heidi Grant Halvorson Feeling stressed? Of course you are. You have too much on your plate, deadlines are looming, people are counting on you, and to top it all off, you still have holiday shopping to do. You are under a lot of pressure — so much that at times, you suspect the quality of your work suffers for it. This is life ..

소통의 법칙 사람들은 귀 때문에 망하는 사람보다 입 때문에 망하는 사람이 많다는 사실을 기억하세요. 1. “앞”에서 할 수 없는 말은 “뒤”에서도 하지 마라. ... 뒷말은 가장 나쁘다. 궁시렁거리지 마라. 2. “말”을 독점하면 “적”이 많아진다. 적게 말하고 많이 들어라. 들을수록 내..

How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace by Keith Ferrazzi Teams can't function well when co-workers don't trust one another. Building and maintaining trust in the traditional, physical workplace is difficult enough, but the process is even tougher in a virtual environment, where people often have to work with people they haven't met in person. Some biologists believe that we..

9 Daily Habits That Will Make You Happier These minor changes in your daily routine will make a major difference in your life and career. Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it's almost impossible to make others happy if you're not happy yourself. With that in mind, here are nine small chan..

Three Ways Leaders Make Emotional Connections by Scott Edinger When I first started working in then-Big Six consulting firm Coopers & Lybrand, the partner I was assigned to was a gentleman named Chris Abramson, and he had an enormous scale of responsibility. Yet whenever I talked with him, which was not that often, he gave me his undivided attention. He talked with me about my..