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Terry St. Marie More Human Leadership
Nearly 30 years ago, when I was assigned a job I had to complete totally on my own, I lived or died on how well I executed. It was indeed terrifying, but golly, was it empowering. I didn't have to rely on anyone else. As long as I was doing these "self contained" tasks, that kind of mental approach was fine, but as my need for control intensified, so did my desire for more responsibility — a classic juxtaposition. More responsibility meant being a leader of a team, and that's where the internal collision occurs.
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Harvard Business Review
As the boss, your goal is to have all your employees operating at their peak level of energy, efficiency and motivation — which can be a challenge when it comes to leading a team comprised of introverts and extroverts. How do you manage these vastly different personalities and work preferences?
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Great Leadership
Almost anyone can become a highly effective leader. Regardless of default leadership abilities — the combination of natural wiring and how someone was parented/taught/led up to now — everyone can get better as a leader. It just takes the right mindset and tools. To be a highly effective leader, you'll need both an internal drive and an external framework for results.
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By Betty Boyd
 Collaboration and relationship building are critical elements in the leadership arena. So, why is it so hard to develop relationships within an organization? Since people are an organization's most important asset, it would make sense that people skills would be as well. However, some leaders shy away from becoming more proficient in their people skills. David J. Deming of Harvard indicates that people skills are becoming increasingly more important as you climb the career ladder.
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Entrepreneur
You've just gotten some bad news — very bad news. An emergency management meeting has been called. Your boss wants to discuss what happened and why you didn't fix things before the problem escalated. This is the kind of event that can easily spiral out of control. The pressure is on. Why wouldn't you lose your cool?
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Forbes
Sometimes leaders can push their folks so hard that performance suffers. While there's huge pressure on leaders to achieve results, there's a fine line between pushing people to achieve greatness and pushing so hard that employees crack. Of the four fundamental leadership styles, one style in particular is at the greatest risk of pushing people too hard — the pragmatist.
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Forbes
We understand that in sports there is a great coach behind every great player, and we celebrate these folks, but in work we somehow forget their importance. We leave behind what we learned in school athletics and approach our professional lives without giving much thought to coaching (or mentoring) or where to look to continue to build our skills and abilities and be the best we can be. That's a mistake.
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Fast Company
Ever been thrown in at the deep end and told to swim? In practice, incremental professional development isn't always how things work. And if you look back at your career, there's probably been at least one huge undertaking, crisis or other crazy situation that you underestimated or didn't see coming but learned a lot from in the end.
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