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Is email killing your team’s performance? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence No comments

Atos an international information technology services company with annual revenues of EUR 8.5 billion and 74,000 employees in 48 countries thinks so and is planning to ban email for internal communications by 2014[i].

What is email waste costing you? According to a survey posted in PRNewswire 25% of “email time” is wasted for a total of 15 days per year. Let’s do the numbers

Total employees X (average annual wage + 15% benefits) X 6% = YIKES!!!
Example: 1200 employees X $30/hour = W...

Parallel systems power creativity and efficiency December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence One comment

It seems that whenever I come up with a revolutionary new idea it only takes a little more research to find someone who had the same insight……before I was even born. This week’s blast from the past comes from Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933). Not only was Mary admired for her smashing hairdo but she was selected by President Theodore Roosevelt as his personal consultant for her expertise as a management theorist...

How do you energize your change strategies? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Positive Deviance No comments

peer-powered-prodding

Take a tip from OPOWER and use peer power to energize change. Most of us “know” the changes we need to make, but if knowing were enough the average person wouldn’t make the same New Year’s resolution ten separate times without success.[i]

We need not only to know the changes we want to make, but believe we can. One of the best ways to increase our expectations of success is to see the accomplishments of our peers...

Illusory Superiority: The Lake Wobegon Effect December 15, 2021 Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Social Smarts No comments

Prompted by the article from NonProfit Times When Board Members Just Don’t Get It my wife shared (she is the brains) I was inspired to add my own thoughts for the purpose of understanding the power of humor in revealing our illusions. Who better to fill our hearts with laughter while challenging our minds to wonder than Garrison Keillor.

Most of us can imagine his melodic voice as he lovingly describes his mythical hometown as a place “where all the women are strong, all the men are good lo...

Googling Leadership January 15, 2013 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance No comments

Over the past fifteen years I have worked with some amazing managers. They are dedicated, hard working and with few exceptions most were promoted into their roles primarily because of their technical expertise. This is not to say that many don’t have exceptional leadership skills, but that “soft skills” are often viewed as being less important than their more quantifiable counterparts.

Google Stock analysis This is not unlike the culture that created Google, where algorithmic expertise was prized above all ...