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 >
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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 >
Leading Through a Crisis: Creating a Sense of Urgency
Today is like no other time in history. The unprecedented outcome of the coronavirus pandemic across the world means that economies are failing and there is more unemployment than in most people’s living memory. Now is the time for leadership; now is the time for people to move out of their comfort zones and do 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 >
Don’t Eliminate Conflict in Business – Manage It!
Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2008 One of the most important ingredients for success in any business is to hire smart, confident and assertive people. However, when you do, you’re sure to have conflict. It’s impossible to put a bunch of smart, assertive people together without them bumping heads. In fact, if there isn’t conflict, then 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 >
How To Deal With The Unintentional Jerk Executive
How To Deal With The Unintentional Jerk Executive By Carl Robinson, Ph.D. © 2010 Difficult executives are the bane of their peers and a major drag on the energy of their bosses. There is a particular type that I will call the “unintentional jerk” who has the best of intentions and firmly believes that they Read More >
The Art & Science of Delegating
Effective delegation is the best indicator of effective management simply because it is so basic to both personal and organizational growth. –Stephen R. Covey Are you a Producer? If you are a producer who can delegate effectively, then your accomplishments far exceed your efforts, because those you foster will also be producers for you, exponentially Read More >