Organizations are like giant hairballs. Stacks of rules, red tape, sacred cows, and memos from 1998.
Gordon MacKenzie, the corporate misfit at Hallmark, encouraged people to orbit the hairball. Don’t get sucked into it.
Stay tethered to your organization but not tangled in bureaucracy. You’re irrelevant when you’re too far out.
I didn’t dream big when I created Leadership Freak. I just wanted to make a difference.
Big dreams are burdens.
Small dreams often provide surprising results.
Big dreams make regular people feel small. But, if the statistics are accurate, most of us are average.
12 Ways to Dream Small And Win!
If you don’t have friends at work, you feel alone for half your life. But close relationships with direct reports feel awkward.
Be friendly. But you aren’t equals. Pretending otherwise leads to confusion and resentment.
Power distorts connection.
Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
Why develop confident employees when you can reduce them to quivering puddles of self-doubt? Follow these time-tested techniques for turning competent professionals into second-guessing, approval-seeking zombies.
When people get nervous or ask for support, accuse them of not being “leadership material.”
How to create anxious overthinkers…
It’s funny we celebrate Labor Day by taking the day off. We honor work with hot dogs and hammocks.
Labor Day is the national “do nothing” award for doing something.
Don’t focus on what you do. Reflect on what your work does.
Unintentional sabotage is still destructive. Lousy coaching personalities create confusion during development conversations. They use words like “coaching” but really mean instructing.
Don’t be:
Fix-It Freddy
Leaky Linda
Vague-asaurus Rex
Support-Me-Not Susan
Bad coaching isn’t a mistake. It’s a catastrophe.
Included here are 5 ways to improve your coaching.
