Executive Summary • Saboteurs quietly undermine trust and accountability. • Focusing only on the individual rarely solves the problem. • Patterns of deflection and disruption reveal the issue. • Strong team norms expose and neutralize toxic behavior. • Culture is the leader’s most powerful corrective tool. What is a Saboteur? It’s important to point out
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Gurus around the world suggest living in the moment and not thinking too much about the future. However, when it comes to having a career, keeping an eye on the future is helpful. If typewriter experts predicted the growth of computers, they would have updated their skill set and would not be
Dayton Uttinger
Being promoted can give you a sense of validation and pride, but it also spurs a new set of problems. While maintaining good relationships with coworkers is the most important factor in low turnover, this is threatened by a change in the hierarchy. When your friends are suddenly your employees,
Dr. Greg Halpern
Situational leadership requires a complex collection of many attributes that include follower-desired personality traits, communication skills, leadership skills, and teaching ability, to name a few. A preferred leadership style is developed by the leader through learning and experience. And the leader’s tendency is to fit the situation to his or
Florida Starks
Building a strong workforce, with solid organizational health, is a requirement for any company seeking to achieve its goals. Progressive organizations understand that the key to an effective team is dependent on the quality of leadership. Leaders typically find themselves managing teams with multiple layers of behavioral dynamics. This means
Dr. Mary Kay
We are all familiar with the leadership skills needed for engaging our employees, the principles of motivation, and the power of great leaders. Additionally, I think people are in agreement that great rewarding performance is crucial to achieving excellence and sustaining organizational success. However, there are some misconceptions about celebration
Kathleen Listman
If you have been pursuing studies on what corporations want in leadership, you may have noticed the term “creative” appearing more frequently. At least until a year ago or so. The problem came with reminders that creative people can be difficult to get along with. For example, Øyvind L. Martinsen,
Dr. Mary Kay
When working with people on their leadership skills, it is interesting to notice that they tend to work against their motivational needs. As a result, they lose motivation and running out of gas. Working with people takes considerable patience. So we need to reverse this trend in order to stay
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I’ll never forget early in 2004 when the bubble of a major epiphany burst. After having experienced and studied the social nature of people across a dozen organizations, I noticed common social patterns behind organizational issues. One such pattern was the most obvious: people were afraid to speak up when
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