by Scott Anderson | Dec 9, 2015 | Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
Jacob Morgan, one of the foremost thinkers on the future of work, has been releasing a series of posts on work environments and what properties makes a workplace particularly productive or not productive. He rightly observes that while there are overarching trends...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 4, 2015 | Leadership, Workplace Issues
Recently, HBR published an article titled “What Amazing Bosses Do Differently.” Though it doesn’t address many of the changes that have taken place over recent years that have changed the way we work, it makes many great points about what leaders need to do...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 2, 2015 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
One of the realities that has shifted for workers in today’s “Workforce 7.0” is an increased sense of flexibility. Though making a leap to a new industry where you lack experience can certainly be daunting, it is by no means impossible. And you don’t have to be a...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 25, 2015 | Personal Enrichment
Before we take a few days’ break from work to spend the Thanksgiving weekend with our friends and family, I wanted to take a break from my recent series of blogs on organizational trust and turn my attention to the holiday weekend. It’s important that, if we want to...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 20, 2015 | Personal Enrichment, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
One complaint I hear way too often from emerging leaders I coach is being micromanaged to such a degree that “they should just fire me if they don’t trust me!” And in a bizarre way, they have a point. If a manager can’t trust people on their team, they should fire...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 18, 2015 | Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
In my ongoing series of blogs about the importance of having trust as a cornerstone of your organization, I’ve talked about how to encourage workers to trust each other, how to encourage them to trust you, and how to build trust with workers who are not physically...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 13, 2015 | Leadership, Playing Big, Workplace Culture
Today, trust is arguably the most important thing an employer can give an employee, and vice versa. Without it, uncertainty and doubt are allowed to run rampant in the workplace and hamper productivity in all sorts of ways. With it, your team feels like a team and...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 11, 2015 | Playing Big, Workplace Culture
I’ve been thinking a lot about trust lately and how crucial it is for us as individuals as well as leaders. In order to get the most out of our relationships, both personal and professional, we need to trust those around us as well as be perceived as trustworthy...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 9, 2015 | Coaching, Playing Big, Workplace Issues
In 2008, Scientific American published a study by Paul J. Zak on The Neurobiology of Trust. Using an experimental task called “the trust game,” researchers found that “oxytocin, a hormone and neurochemical, enhances an individual’s propensity to trust a stranger when...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 4, 2015 | Personal Enrichment, Workplace Culture
“School has traditionally been where you learn; job has been where you work. The line will become increasingly blurred.” – Peter Drucker in 1993’s Post-Capitalist Society. I pulled this quote, one of Drucker’s countless, startlingly astute gems, from an HBR...
