Blogs About "Management"

The Dutch town of Drachten reduced their deaths related to traffic accidents to zero after removed most of their traffic lights and traffic signs eight years ago. Intersections previously adorn with traffic lights and directional signs have been replaced with round-abouts (traffic circles). Residents claim that it’s much quicker and much easier to get around town and without all the stopping and starting and signs to adhere to drivers are...

I have read a lot of blogs and books about leadership and found them very valuable. However I still needed some clarity specially on: What are the top capabilities that a leader needs to have that defines his or her leadership style and framework? So I decided to talk industry leaders and did my own independent research.

After my analysis, I came up with Top 5 Leadership Capabilities that I personally believe...

Today’s businesses are more dependent than ever before on their top performers to innovate and provide services that differentiate a company from its fierce competitors. In other words, corporations are reliant upon their human assets to survive and thrive.

One of the projects that my husband worked on; “To reduce the attrition rate in his companies top performing team”, gave me a deep insight on “Why Top talent leaves?” I was shocked...

In my last blog I talked about the intense power of stress on our interaction skills and how the higher our cognitive ability, the greater the impact. I talked about Jake the genius, a leader who had lost his ability to motivate and positively impact the behavior of his team during this stressful, leaner business environment.

Our brainpower—or cognitive ability-- to think, innovate and motivate can get severely squeezed by the stress...

Recently I was asked to coach a manager whom I first worked with 5 years ago. Let’s call him Jake the genius. He is one of the top ten smartest people I know. When I first met Jake, I was impressed with his insight, his forward thinking, and his ability to motivate and develop the sales team that worked for him. He hired extremely talented people, and they would sing his...