The LeadershipTraction Newsletter – January 2014
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Salted Streets; Salted Fries
Too much fun to NOT re-post! Josh Orter over at Stupid Calculations asks (and answers) what we all want to know: How many orders of french fries could a salt truck salt?! “Nutritional information on McDonalds.com reveals that a medium-sized fries contains 270 mg of sodium,” he writes. “At more than 907 million milligrams per ton, a 16-ton …
Time-Shifting Time
Funny how time has a way of playing games with us. Sometimes it goes too fast; sometimes too slow. Rarely it’s, as Goldilocks might say, “Ahhh, just right.” Why is that? Perhaps Albert Einstein can explain it to us: “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. …
Are you a Leader…or a Martyr
You don’t have to answer out loud, but you have to answer honestly: “Are you most comfortable when you’re feeling overwhelmed?” If so, you may be what’s called, in the February 2014 issue of Inc. magazine, a Martyr-Leader. Telltale signs of a Martyr-Leader You’re a bottleneck…and you secretly like it. Martyr-Leaders have un-fulfillable commitments, impossibly …
Feeling Undervalued
My latest response to a question posed in the Mentor’s Guild their Ask an Expert forum: Their Question: As a team of six managers, we form the core of the research department in an consumer products company. My boss is a long-serving, friendly and very competent head of the department. He is also an idealist. So much …
Managing Older Employees
As a founding member of the Mentors Guild, I help individuals and businesses maximize their performance. Here’s my latest response to a question posed in their Ask an Expert forum: Their Question: My leadership style is casual, friendly and collaborative. One big hurdle — I have to manage a SME (subject matter expert) senior engineer (nearing retirement age) …