by Scott Anderson | Dec 11, 2015 | Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
I recently tweeted Thomas Edison’s famous adage that genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. But there’s an intriguing bit of new research I’ve just come across that flips this notion on its head. It’s in reference to creating a culture that truly engages...
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 | 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 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 | Oct 21, 2015 | Coaching, Playing Big, Workplace Issues
As the organizational dynamics of the American business continue to shift, one of the major points to be aware of for leaders is the fact that over time, the balance of power has shifted from lying almost entirely with the employer to a place where employees now wield...
