by Scott Anderson | Jan 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
A few weeks ago, the Harvard Business Review featured a podcast with Basecamp CEO Jason Fried on the topic “Restoring Sanity to the Office.” This is a great “lunch listen” and definitely worth the 30-minute investment. If you prefer to read it,...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 11, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
Writing in the Wall Street Journal back in 2008, Samuel A. Culvert called for an end to the performance review. By late 2015, HBR published “Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings.” Last summer I looked at some arguments against...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 4, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Playing Big, Uncategorized
As many of my readers know, I really like to beat the “niche drum.” For the last six months or so, I’ve really thumped on about this because finding the right niche is one of the most important things a business can do. So it’s probably no...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
A lot has been written about the differences between generations. As someone on the younger end of the Baby Boomers, much was written about my generation and how different we were from the generation that came before us. Now you can’t turn around without running into...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 21, 2016 | Essential Reading, Playing Big, Uncategorized
A version of this post originally appeared in Omaha Magazine’s Fall, 2016, Women in Business issue. As my regular readers know, I successfully completed a work-from-abroad experiment this last summer. It was by far the most satisfying “put your money where...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 14, 2016 | Coaching, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
As a leader, the lion’s share of responsibility for your company’s climate and communication style rests on your shoulders. Lack of transparency has troubled many companies, but a failure to address issues in the workplace can have a debilitating effect on...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 1, 2016 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized
More and more businesses–and their employees–are recognizing the value of regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings, whether we call them coaching or mentoring. This is exactly the opposite of those dreaded, unproductive, obligatory, wheel-spinning meetings...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 25, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude. Peter L. Berger It would be disingenuous to say that the...
by Scott Anderson | Nov 16, 2016 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized
By far the most respected authority on corporate leadership development (and my personal hero) is Marshall Goldsmith. His exhaustive research on executive performance has generated essential information for companies interested in fostering genuine leadership....
by Scott Anderson | Oct 26, 2016 | Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
Steve Blank published a great article last week about succession planning (“Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors”, Harvard Business Review) that made me review my own experience in this area. Blank describes the traditional entrepreneurial succession...
