Getting your leadership team out of the office for focused discussion, debate, and planning is one of the best tools to build your organization’s competency and improve performance. But far too often, inexperienced leaders try to copy what someone else did in a different organization, and...
It’s an age-old annoyance – that co-worker whose style is irritating. You know it shouldn’t bug you, but it does. There are plenty of sources of irritation. This week, let’s look at one of the most frequent, a fundamental difference between people – where they get...
On January 3, I recommended making one small change per month this year to dramatically improve your skill and confidence in building relationships. If you participated in January and February, pat yourself on the back. If not, it’s not too late catch up. Just jump...
“How can I get the cynics on my team to be more positive?” “How can I find more time to manage my growing business?” “How can I get my very junior staff to understand important developments on a project so they make the right choices going forward?” What...
Written from the point of view of an IT operations leader who never aspired to the job in the first place, this laugh-out-loud funny corporate novel provides a useful and pragmatic perspective on how to leverage IT to gain competitive advantage. I recommend it for...
On January 3, I recommended making one small change per month this year to dramatically improve your skill and confidence in building relationships. If you participated in January, pat yourself on the back. If not, it’s quick to catch up, and you can easily complete...
I bet if I asked, you could rattle off dozens of examples of people who caused great harm from being drunk on power. It makes for great movies and it arguably was responsible for triggering the Great Recession. But I see a different and equally destructive...
Since it’s a new year, and many of you are new readers, I’ve decided to share again how you can lose weight and lead large-scale change using the exact same principals, because they’re driven by the same five essential truths about change: http://jenniferselbylong.com/?p=250. ...
Are you a start-up founder looking for guidance, but you’re not in an accelerator? It can be difficult to find mentors and advisors when you are on your own. Do you have start-up experience that could help others? There’s not always a ready outlet to help...
In 2013 I issued my first ever year-long challenge to readers: to dramatically and intentionally improve your listening skills, one month at a time. It was the #1 change to make in 2013. This year, we’re going to take the challenge up a level and...