Management

9 Simple Things Bad Leaders Often Forget

Leadership can be hard, don't make it harder for yourself<p>Whenever I start to work with a new company on helping to improve their leadership, the first thing I like to do is study them in action and get feedback on how they are perceived as leaders by their teams.<p>Leadership can be difficult, but I …

The 9 Characteristics Of People Who Get Promoted

When I talk to my personal branding clients about their career goals, one regular topic of enthusiastic discussion is getting promoted to a more senior role. Being promoted is one of the most important milestones in an upwardly mobile career path, yet promotions aren’t guaranteed. In fact, they …

9 Ways to Work With Difficult People (Infographic)

Effectively navigate tensions in the workplace to improve your day and your career with these tips.<p>Co-worker tensions account for about 80 percent of workplace difficulties, but fortunately there are many simple tactics to make life at the office easier.<p>Psychologists have found that a threat to a …

The Simple Reason to Learn to Lead Yourself First

Leading others before you know your direction can lead you nowhere, or in circles.<p>Inc. readers love leading. We love learning to lead better.<p>Usually that means learning to lead others. Leading others sounds sexier.<p>In my leadership courses and workshops, nearly everyone prefers the exercises that …

Leadership From The Inside Out: Eight Pathways To Mastery

What does <i>mastery</i> of leadership mean to you? To many people it is mastery <i>of</i> something: mastery <i>of</i> the skill to be a dynamic influencer; mastery <i>of</i> strategic planning and visioning; mastery <i>of</i> consistent achievements and results. Instead of being an ongoing, internal growth process, mastery is usually …

There might be a lack of diversity in Silicon Valley, but my tech startup bucks the trend — here's how we do it

• <b>CEO of Evite Victor Cho has worked in tech for three decades, and has seen the positive impact diversity has had on business success.</b>• <b><br>Now he runs a company that is 60% women. The company achieved this by doing three things.</b>• <b><br>It focuses on capturing divergent thinking, hiring and promoting based on</b> …

The Compelling Attractiveness of Fewer Ideas

How many ideas did Jack Welch need to unleash to reinvent General Electric in the 1980s, as the Cold War wound down and the world economy approached major technological and geo-political inflection points? It turns out not that many! And, let us not forget that this led to a remarkable remaking of …

The Five Traits Of Entrepreneurial Leadership

AOL will be shutting down AIM, its instant messenger service, on December 15. This iconic product was highly popular during its heyday. According to the Wall Street Journal, AIM grew from 13 million users in 1997 to over 65 million users in 2000. While some of us will lament the the closure of AIM, …

Study: race is a stronger impediment than gender for leadership roles in Silicon Valley

3 Simple Ways To Make Your Workplace More Truthful

It’s an unfortunate feature of humanity that people, even smart, ostensibly-rational people, don’t always like to hear the truth. That’s why the study The Risks Of Ignoring Employee Feedback found that only 23% of people say that when they share their work problems with their leader, he/she Always …

Introverts make great leaders—but lack confidence in their capabilities

Introverts often don’t think they will enjoy leadership roles and so are less likely to go for the top job, new research finds. In fact, introverts in our study thought they would be worried and distressed in leadership situations.<p>Whether or not someone is an introvert is usually measured by how …

How to stop being too nice and start getting what you want

<b>Are you a nice person? Good for you.</b><p>I bet that you’re universally adored, you get invited to every party, and you’re the person your friends trust to …

Why Writing a Business Plan is Crucial Before Starting a Business

Writing a plan can be overwhelming, so don't be afraid to use up as many drafts as you need<p>Starting a business may seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. All it takes is a strong business plan, the dedication to follow through, and the wisdom to notice when you have to make changes. Your …

Automate These 3 Processes -- and Free Up Time for High-Value Work

Information workers spend a significant amount of time on manual, repetitive work. More than 40% of respondents to a recent survey said they spend at …

Holiday horror story: how South Africa's red tape cost us our £8,000 dream safari

Our holiday of a lifetime to South Africa was wrecked this summer. We were barred from boarding our flight from Heathrow to Cape Town because we had the wrong type of birth certificate.<p>We didn’t even know there were two types – and that cost us our £8,300 holiday. Our experience is worth sharing if …

Reddit’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian explains his essential “don’ts” for starting a company

Alexis Ohanian has an unprecedented gift: He’s able to use 20/20 hindsight in the present.<p>After selling Reddit to Conde Nast in 2006, he’s now rejoined the company full-time with his long-time friend, Co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman. Today, he helps run it—bringing 11 years of reflection and …

Radical Candor Will Help Managers Balance Accountability and Empathy

Achieving an organization’s goals requires more than putting people on a team and assigning them a task. It involves managing the complex …

How Have Microservices Changed Application Development?

To gather insights on the state of microservices today, we spoke with 19 executives who are familiar with the current state of microservices …

No respect for your boss? Here’s how to grin and bear it

Stay engaged, look for the positive and create mental distance<p>Bosses: Sometimes they don’t get no respect.<p>Fifty-four percent of employees don’t feel …

4 Signs That Bosses Are Really Bullies

Our current political climate is such that every day we become more confused about what leadership really means, how to detect true leadership when we see it, and how to project it when we have it. For many, being a leader means assuming a role that entitles you to the authority to be an …

Kellogg: Adapt To Survive

Kellogg isn't the safe income, growth play it once was.<p>Net sales numbers have declined every year since 2012.<p>Major changes in the product line-up …

Is Your Team Pulling With You Or Against You?

Employee engagement statistics paint a bleak picture, with over half of the workforce categorized as disengaged– defined as ‘less emotionally connected’ and not willing to do any more than necessary to keep their job. More alarming is that nearly 1 in 5 workers are ‘actively disengaged’ – actually …

Managing risks in building conservation projects

A most robust risk management strategy starts when one looks at a building for the first time and doesn’t end at the completion of a ‘project’ but …

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman talks about maintaining company values and his ‘theory of human happiness’

There’s a lot of talk about culture in the tech world these days, and sticking to core values as a company grows can make or break its future.<p>Redfin …

Raghuram Rajan’s name figures in Clarivate’s list of possible winners of Nobel Prize in economics

<b>New Delhi:</b> Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan's name figures in this year's list of possible winners of Nobel Prize in …

A Common Management Temptation: Settling For Mediocrity

One of the most common but problematic temptations of management is the tendency to settle for mediocrity.<p>This long-held belief of mine was recently reaffirmed when I read one of Harvard Business Review’s (excellent) daily management tips, “When Your Team’s Performance Is Mediocre, Address It …

Raghuram Rajan’s name in Clarivate list of Nobel Prize worthies

By: IANS | New Delhi |<p>Former RBI Governer Raghuram Rajan. (PTI Photo)<p>Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan’s name figures in …

Narendra Modi on GST: Don’t want business class to get caught in red-tape

File photo. PM Narendra Modi said the government had earlier stated that it will study the goods and services tax (GST) for three months following …

Secrets of successful change implementation

What do successful implementers of change initiatives do differently from other companies? Our survey of more than 2,000 executives yields actionable …

How to Gain Credibility When You Have Little Experience

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. The photo is of two seasoned, older interviewers glaring critically across the table at a young interview candidate with the following words: “We’re looking for …