If You Design It, They Will Engage. Executive Leadership and Requisite Organization Design
By Michelle Malay Carter on January 1, 2010
Trees and flowers don’t strive to grow.??It’s built right into their DNA to grow and to bountifully produce. Executives Should Take a Page from Farmers Executive leadership?should be concerned about creating the conditions necessary for employees to flourish.? People are wired to work.? They want to produce and produce bountifully. Farmers don’t spend their days […]
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Merry Christmas – True Leaders Serve
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 25, 2009
Regardless of your religious persuasion, one lesson we can all take from Jesus was an understanding that true leaders serve.? This coming year I encourage you to work toward creating a workplace system that does not?drive bad power?but rather unleashes good power which is used in service to others.
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Engaging Employees Through Operationalizing Good Power, Starving Bad Power, and Disallowing No Power
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 21, 2009
I was struck by a message on Good Power Versus Bad Power?at my house of worship last week.? It occurred to me that this is what PeopleFit endeavors to do within Managerial Hierarchies. Throwing The Baby Out with the Bathwater – Egalitarianism We are kidding ourselves to believe?managerial hierarchies can be?egalitarian.? Power must be exercised.? […]
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Even Leaders Have Leaders – How Do We Sort Out Who Leads Whom?
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 15, 2009
Employees Crave True Leadership Employees?don’t begrudge being led.? They resent being asked to submit to the leadership of someone who doesn’t add value to their thinking.? Management Myth Busted Simply having?more experience does not automatically qualify someone to be a thought leader for anyone with less experience. Danger, Danger – Promotions by Tenure Many a […]
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Doing Things Right Versus Doing the Right Things – Operational Work Versus Strategic Work
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 10, 2009
We can convert the famous Peter Drucker quote about management being doing things right and leadership being doing the right things into requisite work levels speak. What Drucker was drawing a line between was the operational work levels in an organization and the strategic work levels in an organization. Doing Things Right aka Current Operations […]
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The Highly Committed, Over Committed Employee – Likeable But Not Capable
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 2, 2009
My Experience – Managers Have Big Hearts Managers are a compassionate breed.? They tend to want to exhaust all avenues before deciding to remove an employee from a role that s/he is not performing to standard.? They try training, they try coaching, they try pleading, etc.? The idea that anyone can do anything if they […]
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The Overcommitted Employee – When No Amount of Training Will Help
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 29, 2009
Mismatch to Role As much as Americans hate to admit it. There are some jobs that are beyond the cognitive reach of some employees. No amount of training, coaching, or personal effort will help the situation. Today we will look at the behaviors a manager might see in this instance. What to Do? We all […]
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What Are Your Employees Thankful For? Fruitful Work or Fruit Baskets?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 25, 2009
It’s Thanksgiving week in the US.? I will resume my current post series next week.? In the meantime, I want to recognize my mentors by saying: May God bless those who have been put on this earth to teach and to those who generously impart their gifts without concern toward personal gain or status. I […]
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The Bright Side of the Underutilized (Overcapable) Employee
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 18, 2009
Today we will look at the positive behaviors a manager might observe in an employee that is underutilized, aka over capable of the work required of his role.? This post is number two in a series of four.? The series titles and links are listed below. ? Possible Negative Manifest Behaviors of an Underutilized Employee […]
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The Dark Side of the Underutilized Employee – Fire them or promote them?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 13, 2009
What to Do About Attitude Problems One of my most popular articles is What To Do About Attitude Problems?? Promote them!? This article explores the negative behaviors a manager might experience not because an employee is unqualified for a job, but because she is cognitively overqualified.? As I’ve said before, high capability does not always […]
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