4 Qualities of Truly Horrible Managers. Fifty per cent of managers are incompetent, so how did that idiot get to be your boss?
Surveys keep telling us that between 65% and 75% of people rate their managers as the worst aspect of their jobs. Is this just baseless moaning, or are they right? Actually most are right since research into managers shows that around 50% of them are incompetent (DeVries, 1993). The reasons they can’t do their jobs are pretty simple. When Leslie and Van Velsor (1996) looked at the research across different organisations and different employees, they found these four points summarised the problems with failed managers (research described in Hogan & Kaiser, 2005): Poor interpersonal skills.
How To Be a Great Leader (in under 300 words) The six psychological factors that make a really great leader.
Want to lead others? Well, much has been said and written about what makes a great leader, so here are the crib notes. A Manager's Manifesto — The Year of the Looking Glass. 5 Big Discoveries About Leadership in 2012. Bad management appears to be an epidemic, costing the economy a total of $360 billion every year in lost productivity . 65% of employees say they would take a new boss over a pay raise, and 3 out of every 4 employees say their boss is the most stressful part of their job.
It’s not like we’re not trying: according to the American Society for Training and Development , in 2011, U.S. firms spent about $156 billion on corporate training . Against this backdrop, what have we learned in 2012 that might help us improve the quality of leadership? Here are five of the bigger findings. 1. Why incompetent leaders keep getting hired There’s a reason we hire poor leaders.
Unfortunately, narcissism doesn’t equate with leadership success. If overconfidence is a natural tendency for some, employers must recognize this as a potential flaw rather than an asset. 2. “Collective Intelligence” is the study of how small groups make decisions and solve problems, literally how smart teams are and why. 3. 4. The 3 Leadership Behaviors That Make Your Employees Feel Fulfilled. Engaged workplace.
Positive, employee-friendly culture. Individualized reward system. You've heard all of these catch-phrases before when it comes to finding out how to make your employees truly feel inspired at work. 3 Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their Productivity Secrets. We're all busy, but how do the super successful mange to fit everything in?
Redefining Love at Work: How to Foster a Sense of Connection. The secret to a more creative, productive workplace may be the one emotion that business leaders rarely encourage at the office: love.
Forget the kind of love you see in greeting cards and Valentines. According to emotion researcher Barbara Fredrickson, author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become (Hudson Street, 2013), love is much more ordinary. "Love is any positive emotion that we share with another person in real time," Fredrickson says. "It could be shared serenity, pride, or compassion, but the minute that it becomes shared, it is converted to an experience of love. " Love changes the way your brain works. Rule for Success: Emphasize Steady Progress. Nine Strategies Successful People Use to Overcome Stress. Young Boss? 5 Tips for Hiring Older Workers.
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Young Entrepreneurs Today's Most Read 9 Proven Ways to Get People to Take You Seriously 4 Intangibles That Drive CEOs What It Takes to Go From Dead Broke to 6 Figures in 6 Months The Mentality of a Successful Career 4 Big Challenges That Startups Face These Siblings Are Cooking Up America's First Meatless Butcher Shop Kim Lachance Shandrow. Why the Best Managers Ask the Most Questions.
When your employees ask for help, how you respond can either empower them to find a solution or make them dependent on your input.
One simple response consistently empowers employees: answering with a question instead of a statement. "The most common mistake managers make when helping a direct report solve a problem is a knee-jerk reaction to deliver an answer," says LeeAnn Renninger, director of LifeLabs, a Manhattan-based professional development and research organization, which offers a class on this technique. The Jeff Bezos School of Long-Term Thinking. If you want to know about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ obsession with longevity, all you have to do is read up about his side projects.
You could check out his super-secretive aerospace company, Blue Origin. Or you could look in the Sierra Diablo Mountain Range in Texas, where Bezos is carving out a hole in one of the mountainsides to build a 10,000-year clock using $42 million of his own money. Why focus 10,000 years into the future? The answer lies in Bezos’ letter to Amazon shareholders from 1997 when the company went public, a manifesto of sorts about the benefits and approaches to long term thinking.
The 1997 letter’s main point: we can’t realize our potential as people or as companies unless we plan for the long term. 7 Ways to Be a Stress-Free Workaholic. 9 Daily Habits That Will Make You Happier. Happiness is the only true measure of personal success.
Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it's almost impossible to make others happy if you're not happy yourself. With that in mind, here are nine small changes that you can make to your daily routine that, if you're like most people, will immediately increase the amount of happiness in your life: 1. 6 Habits of Remarkably Likeable People. When you meet someone, after, "What do you do? " 6 Things Really Productive People Do. How to Be More Charismatic: 10 Tips. Some people instantly make us feel important. Some people instantly make us feel special. Some people light up a room just by walking in. We can't always define it, but some people have it: They're naturally charismatic. Unfortunately, natural charisma quickly loses its impact. Familiarity breeds, well, familiarity. The Science of Building Trust. Years ago I was one of a handful of people hired to help turn around a family owned and operated manufacturing plant that had just been sold to an investment group.
Early on we had a tough time building rapport with employees; they knew we were brought in to make major changes. One day I was in a conference room with Jimmy, a bindery supervisor, and Randy, the manager of customer service and scheduling. 10 Things Extraordinary People Say Every Day. They're small things... but each has the power to dramatically change someone's day. Including yours. Getty. How Great Bosses Motivate Employees.