by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
“No organization, team, or individual mission has ever failed for lack of a good strategy. They fail for lack of execution.” Moving people from knowing to doing is a critical and tough task. As facilitators, it is our role to not only bring a group to consensus about...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
Leadership is a simple activity – but “simple” does not mean “easy.” As Chip Heath, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, says, “effective leaders are masters of simplicity.” What he means is that leaders are good at...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
Silicon Valley has a diversity problem. Everyone has heard the numbers: 83 percent of Google employees are male, and 91 percent are white or Asian. Similarly, about 69 percent of Facebook employees are male, and 91 percent are once again Asian or white. Twitter,...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 31, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
Everybody has blind spots. They arise from the fact that, as human beings, we are situated in a world that elicits responses from us at all times – often without providing an opportunity to stop and think about how we go about responding. In other words, we all have a...
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
Hank Paulson, the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has said that every leader that he’s worked with has had significant blind spots – and he’s worked with a lot of important leaders in the financial world. These leaders know they have strengths and weaknesses....
by James O. Rodgers | Jul 30, 2019 | Management Skills for Leaders
By 2015, Millennials will represent the largest generational cohort in the workforce. If you believe some of the leading news sources, this will be the apocalypse. According to them, Millennials are strange creatures that do not play by the old rules of the workplace....
