It’s been said that the number one reason people leave a job is to leave their manager. The impact managers as a collective population have on your organization’s performance and culture is often overlooked and underestimated.
Google recently studied the managers in its organization. “The starting point was that our best managers have teams that [...]
The largest generation in the U.S. right now is the Millennials, or Generation Y, making up about 28% of our population. They currently represent 25% of the U.S. workforce, and the number of Millennials moving into leadership roles in the workplace increases every day as more and more Traditionalists and Baby Boomers retire.
Millennials consider [...]
The Peter Principle states that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”, meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle.
I’ve [...]
Continue Reading →In the beginning of my career, women were far outnumbered by men in the company for which I worked, both in entry-level positions and especially in management. Perhaps as a way to seek approval by their male counterparts, or perhaps because they were modeling the behavior of the all-male senior management team, many of the [...]
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