Recently, I posted a list of 12 Things Good Bosses Believe. Now I'm following up by delving into each one of them. This post is about the fourth belief: "One of the most important, and most difficult, parts of my job is to strike the delicate balance...
[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Persuasion is a catalyst for getting work done, for achieving an outcome you can't realize on your own. MBA courses, leadership books, and executive education classes recognize the importance of per...
I've been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I'm far from the player I wish I were. I've been thinking about this a lot the past couple of weeks, because I've taken the opportunity, for the first time...
Would you like a better boss? A boss who helps you obtain valuable information, win needed resources, and secure important support for your group and for you personally — in short, a boss who's a real ally and partner? If your boss provides these ben...
Leaders can sometimes communicate more without words than with them. What matters is poise and conviction. That came to mind as I watched Kevin Bacon's performance in Taking Chance, an HBO movie based upon Lt. Col. Mike Strobl's moving account of esc...
CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren't as effective in their learned language, says Assistant Professor .
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For the first time in its history, Stanford is offering some of its most popular engineering classes free of charge to students and educators around the world. expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online. A computer and an Inter...
Fifty useful life tips & tricks that you can implement this instant. Increase your efficiency and ability to succeed by modifying or adding these little habits into your daily existence.
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. It's just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if