Have you ever heard of workplace virtues like balance, collaboration, creativity, excellence , fairness, passion and preparation? This virtues may actually be hindering your organization's performance.
Have you ever heard of workplace virtues like balance, collaboration, creativity, excellence , fairness, passion and preparation? This virtues may actually be hindering your organization's performance.
Too many leaders and management consultants try to take short cuts when tasked with shaking up the culture of an organization. Just by stating, “We want a higher profit margin,” they think that employees will jump to action and align their work with this broad and poorly conceived goal. It just doesn’t work that way!
If asked to name the greatest icon of recent times, who would we pick? It’s a fair bet that many would choose Nelson Mandela. A man who suffered at the hands of an extremely unjust society, he refused to break, and instead kept fighting, kept pushing for justice and, after decades of punishment, won.
Being compassionate, truly getting to know your colleagues and striving to create a more friendly and humane workplace are now the keys to success. Ultimately, it’s about reintroducing love into business.
What does it take to become a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States? An impossible question to answer, perhaps, but when Sonia Sotomayor was put on the bench by Barack Obama in August 2009, it was the first time a person with a Hispanic background rose to the venerated position, and only the third time a woman had been chosen to inhabit the office.
At the start of every year, many of us make bold promises to change our lives. We get a gym membership and decide we’ll have those abs by summer. But then February rolls around, and we’re as gym-shy as we were in December. Why is that? Quite simply, it’s because we fail when it comes to execution