Do you want your employees to be more innovative? Yes, of course. Who doesn’t? However, spurring innovative thinking and action is not easy, otherwise everyone would be creating the Apple Watch, Zoom, and the Go-Pro Hero. Here I’ll offer tips on how to foster more innovative thinking in your business. Suggestions are drawn from my Read More >
Culture
Why You Need Vision – Especially Now
There are two types of leaders in a crisis – those who become totally obsessed with the short term, and those who are savvy enough to look at the long-term implications of what is happening around them. These are the ones with vision. These are the ones who, even if things are tough (as they are Read More >
Popularity & Leadership: Should You Try For Both?
Popularity and leadership – at first glance it might seem as though they are two entirely separate ideas. You can’t be popular and a good leader. You can’t be a good leader and be popular. It just doesn’t work. Yet many people strive to be both popular and a great leader. They want to have it all; they want to be amazing at their jobs and they Read More >
Some Truths About Courage & Leadership
Courage and leadership. Have you ever put those two words together before when it comes to your own business (or any business, come to that)? Probably not. Courage and leadership as a combination tends to be reserved for those in the military, in jobs that require lives to be put on the line such as the police force or fire service, Read More >
Build On Your Strengths — Avoid The Five Fatal Flaws
There is one major thing to remember when you want to succeed in your chosen profession, and in your specific job; you need to know your strengths and build on them. Does this sound like familiar advice, or is it contrary to what you have always been told? It’s more likely to be the latter; Read More >
Employee Energy A Key To Business Success
Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2004 Current research into factors that contribute to business success provides some interesting insights… some of which are surprising and ironic. “Firms going public that place high value on employee energy, corporate culture, rewards and organization structure outperform their peers on stock price growth, sales growth and size when measured as Read More >
Creativity Killers – Watch Out!
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2004 During a recent dinner meeting with a group of bio-tech CEOs where I was the invited speaker, one of them complained about people who she characterized as, “Yes, but-ers.” Her complaint must have resonated because the other CEOs clamored to chime in with their examples of what I will Read More >
Managing the 21st Century Worker
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2007 Bribing employees to be content and to remain your employees by giving them bonuses, stock options and other monetary incentives is the dominant retention strategy used by corporate America. Unfortunately, that works best in emerging fast growth businesses and during a rising stock market or boom as Microsoft was Read More >
Why Good Companies Fail – It’s Not the Recession
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2009 The economy is tough, but getting better. I hear it from most of my C-Level clients. The tone is now, “We need to gear up so that we are not left behind as we emerge from the recession.” If you’ve been fortunate, you’ve built a good, perhaps “great” company Read More >
Reducing Procrastination in the Workplace
Maybe we should leave this article for another time… Workplace procrastination is the worst kind of self-fulfilling prophesy. It’s de-motiving, demoralizing, and cripples the culture you’ve worked so hard to build. If you are actively procrastinating then you may find you do your best work with the clock ticking down to the final seconds as Read More >