The Harvard Business Review has an article in the latest issue: How to teach pride in “Dirty Work.” This is not a joke!
Here is the essence of the article. Employees in stigmatized occupations can be helped with an array of techniques to cope with or even feel proud of their jobs,
including developing an occupational ideology to confer a [...]
What is your legacy as a leader?
Even if you are just starting out as an assistance manager at the local convenience store it is time to think beyond yourself, beyond the current time, to your ultimate legacy. Do you want to be remembered as the leader who put the slur in slurpee or the ho [...]
Goals can drive you hairy or you can even have hairy goals.
Dr. Z. encourages you to have hope rather than goals. Because who ever wants to hear someone say to them, “you haven’t got a hope.” And nobody ever says, “you gotta be hag!”
Perhaps you have heard of a BHAG - Big Hairy Audacious Goal!
Collins and Porras [...]
Welcome back to Dr. Z’s Leadership Institute Quotation Corner.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ~ [...]
One of Dr. Z’s. key maxims is: When in doubt, quote. Transformational leaders demonstrate the attitude of platitude.
Sprinkling your meetings with quotations is the secret formula for demonstrating high performance knowledge management.
To help you leverage your leadership moxie Dr. Z. will bequeath you quotations to share with your staff to instill inspiration, innovation, interaction, insight, and tepid [...]
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