How Jerks Become Bosses, Leaders, Authorities And Influencers
Posted on24 Feb 2020
Tagsauthority, boss, confidence, formal organizational power, hubris, Influence, subconscious, leadership dark side, sycophant
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Yes, who’s a jerk depends. Yet, in every workplace a consensus rises. At some point, employees start to wonder how jerks become... Read More
Key To Telling Leaders And Managers Apart In Any Workplace
The key to telling leaders and managers apart in the workplace is that anyone can be a leader. Not so with managers.... Read More
Using Your Power Of Personality To Influence Organizations
The digital and technological age dominates our world. This age routinely discounts humans. Falling into this mindset, we lose touch with the... Read More
Personality Types Using Power and Politics in the Workplace
Posted on16 Nov 2015
Tagsformal organizational power, Influence, informal organizational power, power, relationships, office politics
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Underneath the how to deal with office politics is power. There is a close link between power and politics in the workplace.... Read More
Leadership, The Secret (Pt 4): Leadership Riddle
Posted on23 Dec 2013
Tagschange, formal organizational power, informal organizational power, leadership, Performance, Personality, problem solving, relationships, rewards, Leadership - The Secret Series, inspiration, power in personality, leadership riddle, analogy collection, Soup Stock – Problem Solving Analogy
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Leadership has many definitions. It brings to mind the attempts to define such things as love and beauty. Sometimes, when trying to... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 2) – Situational Preferences
Posted on18 Jul 2013
Tagscompetition, control, executive, formal organizational power, hierarchy, leadership, organization, power, process, psychopaths, rules, situation, Psychopath in Workplace Series
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The introductory post of this mini-series summarized the situations promoting the rise of psychopaths to CEO as: Formal hierarchies, organizations, processes and... Read More
How Psychopaths Become CEO’s (Pt 1) – Introduction
The short answer to this post’s title is that we let them. To understand this, we need to examine this outcome as... Read More
Solving the Nonproductiveness of Telecommuting Workforces
The article “Face Time” (The New Yorker, March 18, 2013 edition) by James Surowiecki discusses telecommuting’s downsides by focusing on its interpersonal... Read More
Top Seven Sun Tzu Quotes: #7 Effective Orders
Posted on18 Apr 2013
Tagsprioritization, command, employees, executive, formal organizational power, leadership, morale, organization, Pollyannaism, change, success, Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Sun Tzu Top 7 Quotes Series, machismo
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Responses to my original Sun Tzu post have encouraged me to write more about important Sun Tzu quotes from The Art of... Read More
Leaders, Followers, Individuals and Heroes
Posted on28 Mar 2013
Tagsinformal organizational power, individual, archetype, heroes, Lone Ranger, Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Dirty Harry, power, leadership, formal organizational power
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“If you’re not a leader, you’re a follower.” You’ve heard this how many times? Yet, there is a third: people who don’t... Read More
