5 ways to keep your team engaged after their “invisible promotions”
If you’re managing a team of people who have experienced invisible promotions, you need to be strategic in your leadership – and listen to Judy...
View ArticleMaya Angelou makes management and persistence beautiful
As far as I know, Maya Angelou never taught management classes at Stanford or ran leadership workshops for would-be winners. She’s known as a poet...
View Article5 career and leadership lessons from Rise of Planet of the Apes
Very few of us spend our days in a pharmaceutical research laboratory watching the reactions of chimps and apes for clues whether a wonder drug...
View ArticleMust-have skills: 7 traits that employers will adore
Part 3 on my must-have skills You want to be the one they cannot wait to see on Monday morning. The worker who is adored...
View ArticleNelson Mandela: 3 wise leadership lessons for our lives
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we’ve lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that...
View ArticleWhat women could learn from Burning Man
By Vickie Elmer Naked men twirling fire and naked women dancing. Castles and costumes, pirates drinking tequila and bicycles decked in neon lights. Strangers wandering...
View ArticleLead with pins
While I’m finishing a major package on work-life balance, my time for WorkingKind blog posts is, well, out of balance. Instead of a new post...
View ArticleWhy “Fire the jerk” makes offices finer places
By Vickie Elmer “Fire the jerk.” Yes, it’s that simple. Tell that one spoiled, self-absorbed, always chattering or energy-sucking individual to pack up and begone. Your...
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