The advantages of certain physical attributes in the workplace are well known. The most common traits that have been shown to provide advantages to those blessed with them are height and good looks. For some years, researchers have been trying to measure how much truth is in this commonly accepted belief. For example, according to…
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Going one-on-one with your CEO
It’s your big moment: You have been given a chance to brief the chief executive officer of your organization. Some people interact with the CEO routinely, but this is a first for you. On his Great Leadership blog, executive development expert Dan McCarthy offers advice on how to make the most of the opportunity: Prepare…
Customers, Competition and Cost
Sam’s Club CEO Brian Cornell on the Essential ‘Cs’ of Leadership Sam’s Club CEO Brian Cornell once attended a conference at Apple that was designed to give corporate executives a chance to learn some of the secrets behind the late Steve Jobs’s success. Cornell recalled asking Jobs how much he relied on focus groups to…
5 Tricks from a LinkedIn Jedi
The man who wrote the book on LinkedIn shares his secrets to becoming an expert social networker. David Gowel has made many career transitions:from civilian to military, from military to academic, and finally from academic to entrepreneurship. Along the way, Gowel used LinkedIn to achieve each step; an experience, he says, that has made him…
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology.
“It’s fucked up when your mind’s playin’ tricks on ya”—The Geto Boys By far the most difficult skill for me to learn as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared to keeping my mind in check. Over…
The Company That Outlawed Email
What if you came into work everyday with zero messages in your inbox? What if you didn’t even have an inbox? If contrarians can be defined as people who reject the majority opinion, Klick, a Toronto-based digital marketing agency that made the Technology Fast 500 list for the third year in a row, is a…
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