Leadership Freak
MARCH 2, 2012
Unrelenting pressure, backstabbing and undercutting, fatigue, feeling powerless and under appreciated spawn burnout. According to Maslach and Jackson the six factors of burnout are: Working too much. Unjust environments. Little support. Working where you feel unable to effect change. Serving values you loath. Insufficient reward (whether the currency is money, prestige, or positive feedback).
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Your strengths have dark sides that limit potential, destroy achievement, and hamstring opportunities. Powerful strengths become anchors without softeners. The difference between mediocre and extraordinary success is tempering qualities. Task oriented leaders come off as people-users more interested in finishing projects than the people completing them.
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 25, 2012
Image source Leave the good ole days in the past. Enjoy memories but never try recreating experiences. Some years back, my wife and I went to an amusement park with another couple. It was the perfect storm of fun. The day was perfect. The crowds were small. We smiled, laughed, and played till it hurt. [.].
Leadership Freak
MARCH 1, 2012
By definition most of us are average. Even though: 68% of the faculty at the University of Nebraska rate themselves in the top 25% of teaching ability. 90% students see themselves as more intelligent than the average student. 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top 50% of driving ability. 92% of teachers say [.].
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
** You must give power in order to empower? Empowerment is giving qualified people power and permission to act. Empowerment fails when leaders talk empowerment but hang on to permission or make it difficult to act. Empowered people become colleagues not employees. Transform your organization by making subordinates colleagues. Eliminate exclusive trappings of power.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Every reason projects stall comes back to one, lack of urgency. Foggy deliverables, inadequate resources, blurred priorities, under qualified participants, and distant deadlines inevitably drain urgency. Who’s responsible: Save time, energy, and resources by settling the question of responsibility for derailed projects, quickly. Leaders are responsible, always.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 25, 2012
Image source Leave the good ole days in the past. Enjoy memories but never try recreating experiences. Some years back, my wife and I went to an amusement park with another couple. It was the perfect storm of fun. The day was perfect. The crowds were small. We smiled, laughed, and played till it hurt. [.].
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