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Carefrontation — The Ultimate Leadership Trait

Great Leadership By Dan

As a new project manager at Hewlett Packard I found that I interacted with a lot of brilliant people, many of who had been conditioned by higher learning institutions to compete rather than collaborate. Produce higher quality work: Happy people simply care more and do better work because of it. He called it carefrontation.

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Don't Like Your Job? Change It (Without Quitting)

Harvard Business Review

So what do you do when you're stuck in the wrong job? Whether or not you are satisfied with your job often has to do with your disposition, says Sigal Barsade, the Joseph Frank Bernstein Professor of Management at The Wharton School. Alter what you do. Seek out people who can help you do your job better.

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How to Manage a Perfectionist

Harvard Business Review

Do you have a perfectionist on your team? On some level, they actually believe no one can do it better," says DeLong. Many perfectionists don't realize what they're doing; others do but aren't motivated to change. No one loves to do things just adequately," says Kaplan. "No Yes and yes. Coach, if possible.

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