by Scott Anderson | Jan 25, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized
If there is one attribute guaranteed to slow you down, it’s perfectionism. I’ve been thinking a lot about adaptive leadership lately (like there’s another kind?) and recently reread a Harvard Business Review article from way back in 2010,...
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...
