6 Common Mistakes You Need To Avoid When Making Decisions
Inspired from Judgement in Managerial Decision Making by Max H. Bazerman Don’t trust your gut. Unfortunately, trusting your gut in managerial decision making can often lead to unreliable solutions to simple problems. Many people would argue that you need to fail fast in order to learn from your mistakes. But can people learn […]
6 Pillars to Effective Decision Making
Inspiration from: Judgement in Managerial Decision Making by Max H. Bazerman “Whoever decided that was probably drunk.” There are many decision that in retrospect seem completely ridiculous considering their original intention. Maybe it was the decision to open up a new department which subsequently closed weekly after announce? Or maybe it was to […]
Biggest Mistake Manager’s Make During 1v1s with Millennials
Sweaty palms and restless nerves. That would probably be a better name for one on one meetings. Quite often, these meetings are known to create anxiety and be a rebuking ground for a lot of managerial-direct report relationships. However, all across the management field, managers are told that one on ones should be used to […]
4 Things That Nonprofits Can Teach Businesses
Peter Drucker, the world-renown management author could have not said it any better in his book The Essential Drucker, “Volunteers have to get more satisfaction from their work than paid employees, precisely because they do not get a paycheck. They need above all, challenge. They need to know the organization’s mission and to believe in […]
Why Manager’s Should Not Give Up Control
In the Joy at Work, Dennis Bakke, founder and past CEO of the multi-billion dollar enterprise, AEM does an excellent job of being authentic and showing examples of how companies can make work feel less like work. When he introduced the concept of management, he spelled out a few things that could empower employees lower […]
Business Success Stories Are Not Always What They Seem
If you enjoy reading business materials like me you have probably read hundreds of articles and dozens of books on best practices in business. These sources can fall into two extremes, on one side business resources can be filled with numerous success stories without scientific backing and on the other hand, resources that are […]
Joy at Work an Argument for Self Determination Theory
Upon reading Joy at Work – A Revolutionary Approach to Fun on the Job, Dennis W. Bakke, co-founder and CEO of AES Corporation, outlined what he did in order to make his workplace more exciting, reward, stimulating and enjoyable. As a New York Times Bestseller, the book is written in an autobiographical format versus the classic […]
Socialism vs Capitalism – Solving Intergroup Conflict in the Workplace
According to Gallup Research in 2016, over half of 18-29 years see socialism in a positive light while less than a quarter of 65+ year old employees do. While on first glance these difference don’t seem noteworthy, its are symbolic that the workplace has become an increasing varied in viewpoints. In addition, due to social […]
Is Extreme Ownership Leadership B.S.?
In a post earlier this month, I touched upon Extreme Ownership and its applicability to the workplace. If you are not familiar with Extreme Ownership, EO is a type of leadership style coined by Jocko Willink and Leif Basi, both former Navy SEALS, that involve taking ownership in everything relating to a team: weather, performance, […]
Using Motivation 3.0’s Purpose to Motivate Millennials and Employees in General
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”― Friedrich Nietzsche How simple yet profoundly deep. Motivation 3.0, coined by Daniel H. Pink, in his book Drive, has three parts to it, and the last part is ‘purpose’. The other two, autonomy and mastery, have both been discussed in posts […]