Workplace Bullying: It’s Ugly, It’s Complex and the Solution Might Not Be What You Think
These days the grim topic of workplace bullying is getting talked about a lot where I live. Everyone agrees that...
Leadership Myth #8 – Leaders Control Things.
In my experience, the term “command and control” gets a bad rap in many organizations. It is equated with a...
Leadership Myth #7 – Good Leaders Make People Happy
An organizational leader once said to me that they thought that they and their direct reports were a “really good...
Leadership Myth #6 – Leadership and Management are in Opposition
As young Officer Cadets our late night conversations, once the obvious topics had been exhausted, would turn to leadership. It...
Leadership Myth #5 – Leaders Never Admit to Mistakes
The phrase “mistakes were made” has become almost a metaphor for attempts by organizational leaders to distance themselves from personal...
Leadership Myth #4 – Leaders Never Admit to Limitations
“So, what have you learned from this?”, the psychologist asked. After thinking for a moment I responded, “I used to think of having...
Leadership Myth #3 – Leaders Must Have All The Answers
Colonel Chris Hadfield, in his marvelous book “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth”, notes that in any group a...
Leadership Myth #2 – Leaders Should Be Invisible
There is a saying attributed to Lao Tzu: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his...
Leadership Myth #1 – The Meaningless “Nature/Nurture” Debate
As a young Officer Cadet (about a thousand years ago or so) studying “Military Leadership and Applied Psychology” I was...
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