by Scott Anderson | Mar 25, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Culture
When you find a great employee, you want to do everything you can to hold onto them. After all, to lead an organization that produces consistent work AND grows steadily, consistency is a baseline expectation. To avoid employee churn, you need to know what qualities...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 23, 2016 | Leadership
What makes a leader stand out from his or her peers? In the past, there may have been more of an argument for different types of people taking to different leaders for “different” or intangible cultural reasons. Today, we can see that we are living in a global village...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 18, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
Today, the race for top talent is more competitive than ever. With an increasing number of small startups challenging the established market leaders in almost every industry, and an increase in the viability of working for yourself, the most qualified and desirable...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 9, 2016 | Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
Back in 2012, Google set out to quantifiably research what makes certain high-performing teams work the way they do. Where two groups have equally smart and qualified people, what intangibles account for their differences in performance? The New York Times Magazine...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 2, 2016 | Leadership, Playing Big
For younger people who are looking to make the jump into leadership for the first time, there can be a lot of uncertainty. That’s fine. As I have discussed in a previous blog, you have to be ready to fail and learn on the job and you absolutely must admit you are...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 17, 2016 | Leadership, Playing Big
Great leaders tend to listen more than they speak. They also tend to ask questions more often than they pontificate about the right or wrong way to do things. They have discovered that rather than telling people how things should be done, it tends to stick much better...
