by Scott Anderson | Jun 5, 2017 | Essential Reading, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
The 20th Amazon shareholders letter written by Jeff Bezos is an annual business must-read. Also worth your time is a good article on Bezos’ letter by Suneel Gupta, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. One of the themes that Bezos...
by Scott Anderson | May 30, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Issues
The May-June 2017 issue of the Harvard Business Review features a spectacular article, What Sets Successful CEOs Apart. I urge you to read the whole thing, but here are a few highlights. Between 2000 and 2013, the four authors conducted research on the CEO...
by Scott Anderson | May 22, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
What are the main distractions that cannibalize your day, and how much of every day is spent/wasted on them? Nobody else will protect our schedules for us, so we have to do it ourselves. Here are some tools that can help: Rocks, Pebbles, and Sand Almost everyone has...
by Scott Anderson | May 15, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
An article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review covered one of my favorite topics: Trust in the workplace. In “The Neuroscience of Trust,” Paul J. Zak addresses new research which shows the highest trust workplaces are also the highest...
by Scott Anderson | May 12, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
In last week’s post, we talked about why waiting—putting off our goals and dreams until some arbitrary future date—is often a waste of precious time. Sometimes, all we need is to look at things in a completely new way. A few years ago I had a great coach named...
by Scott Anderson | May 3, 2017 | Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
How often have we heard that we need to have a five-year plan or a 10-year plan? Several things have occurred recently that made me think about why we wait. The rationale for waiting is typically completely made up. I started thinking about all the time I’ve...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 26, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
This is the final post on “What Not To Do And How Not To Do It” covering six of the biggest leadership mistakes and how to stop making them. Like the other negative behaviors we’ve discussed in the past several weeks, a bad attitude can manifest in many...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 19, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
. . . everyone’s waiting for you to go off. In the past few weeks, we’ve covered four of the six leadership mistakes and how to fix them: excuse-making, bad manners, ego problems, and lying; get ready for the loose cannon. I like to say that this kind of leader...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 12, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
This post covers the fourth of six leadership mistakes and how to fix them. In the past few weeks, we’ve covered excuse-making, bad manners, and ego problems; now it’s time to talk about lying. When people are found out as liars, the word spreads like wildfire. This...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 5, 2017 | Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
The third in our series of leadership mistakes and how to fix them, conquering the problem of ego run amok is a tough one—especially for people who are very talented. Ego is often the biggest problem for leaders, and it accounts for about 70 to 80% of the...
