Don't Get Hooked on "Fake Work"
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must...
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- Dec 19, 2022
Don't Outsource Your Thinking
If there's one thing I've learned from attaining my Ph.D. it is this — don't outsource your thinking. As a society, we've become lazy,...
- Sep 22, 2022
Book Review: Show the Value of What You Do by Patricia P. Phillips and Jack J. Phillips
IMPORTANT: For this book summary, I'll be using and referencing other books by the author(s) to better provide context, examples, and...
- Jun 2, 2022
How Steve Jobs Reframed The Competition To Rally The Troops
Photo: Screenshots of Apple 1984 Super Bowl TV Commercial I have been in companies that operated with an extremely competitive culture...
- May 11, 2020
3 Reasons Physical Offices & Face-to-Face Meetings Are Not Going Away
The traditional, physical office is not going away any time soon despite advances in technology allowing people to work remotely, either...
- Nov 1, 2019
Pygmalion Effect – A Leader’s Attitude and Expectation Set the Tone
In the book, Extreme Ownership, Leif Babin (a U.S. Navy SEAL officer who was a SEAL instructor overseeing the Junior Officer Training...
- Dec 3, 2018
Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help
“Layoffs are mostly bad for companies, harmful for the economy, and devastating for employees.” -Newsweek (2010) In December 2017, I...
- Sep 2, 2018
An “Action Bias” Can Be Counterproductive
In a Wall Street Journal article, Staats (2018) writes, “we have an action bias: We would rather be seen doing something than doing...
- May 1, 2018
Why Organizations Need More Star Followers and Less Yes People
Many of us miss a key point about the importance of followership. Indeed, most people hold a negative view of followership (Kelley,...
- Jul 2, 2017
Book Review: The Leadership Challenge, 6th Edition
[Note: This post was updated July 2020 for freshness & clarity.] “The notion that there are only a few great people who can lead others...
- Mar 7, 2017
How To Manage A Team That Keeps Growing
Athletics carrying a crew canoe over heads | Credit: Clerkenwell I was contacted by a freelance writer working on a blog post for the...
- Feb 1, 2017
Reasons Why People Resist or Support Organizational Change
“Change can generate deep resistance in people and in organizations, thus making it difficult, if not impossible, to implement...
- Jan 4, 2017
Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE)
Much of the original research on Results-Only Work Environment (ROWE) came from the field of sociology. Two sociologists from University...
- Dec 3, 2016
Characteristics of a Team and Barriers to Effective Team Functioning
Before delving into the barriers of an effective team, you must first understand the difference between a team and a group: “The...
- May 9, 2016
The Link Between Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organization Development, & Change Management
[Note: This post was updated February 2022 for freshness & clarity.] I often find people confusing and commingling the terms...
- Sep 18, 2013
Can Apple Remain Innovative Without Their Visionary Leader?
In January 2009, Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “No American CEO is more intimately identified with his company’s...
- Jul 3, 2013
Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s Identity Crisis and How to Fix It
[NOTE: This post was updated February 2022 for freshness & clarity.] Recently, I’ve been struck by how stuck people and even...
- May 26, 2013
Organizational Diversity Initiatives
[Note: This post was updated March 2021 for freshness & clarity.] Diversity initiatives usually sound great on paper and on an...
- Nov 26, 2010
The Dangers of Charismatic Leaders
[NOTE: This post was updated December 2022 for freshness & clarity, and to remove and replace broken URL links.] Professor Robert Sutton...
- Feb 5, 2010
Implementing Change and Overcoming Resistance
[NOTE: This post was updated November 2016] In “Leading Change,” John Kotter (1996) outlined an 8-Stage Process to Creating Major Change:...
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