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March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared Time Management Strategies & Prioritizing. Joel writes: “Miguel had been working to increase his responsibilities to prove he could handle a leadership role, but now he was having a hard time keeping up with it all. Here are five ways to effectively manage your energy.”

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High-Trust Teams

Coaching Tip

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. You didn't have to be the hero every day; someone would always step up and help the group succeed.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

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Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?

Harvard Business Review

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? Who schedules them, orders the food, and tidies up afterward? To bring tending into the light, managers could assess tending across three dimensions: organizational, team, and peer.

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Does Work Make You Happy? Evidence from the World Happiness Report

Harvard Business Review

We look primarily at how people evaluate the quality of their lives overall, something Gallup measures according to the Cantril Ladder , an 11-point scale where the top step is your best possible life and the bottom step is your worst possible life. Gallup then asks respondents to indicate which step they’re currently on. Related Video.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. Empowered and Trusted Digital World.

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Exploiting Beauty in the Workplace

Harvard Business Review

In the upcoming issue of HBR, our Synthesis column dives into Hakim's new book , and two others on the topic, to understand what this concept means for managers. Women, she says, are more charming, more graceful in social interaction, and have more social intelligence than men, but they don't exploit those advantages.