Category: Leadership

Lessons from Google: 5 Ways to Create Psychological Safety

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 18, 2016 | Leadership

Companies do better when workers collaborate. Employees who work in teams produce better results...

Management Advice From Steve Jobs

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 14, 2016 | Leadership

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f60dheI4ARg] In two and half minutes, Steve Jobs nails...

Why Gaining Trust is Hard: 4 Ways to Get it Back

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 11, 2016 | Leadership

Gaining trust is hard, especially for leaders. One study finds that just being in a leadership...

Toxic Employees: 5 Classic Types and Why They Need More Attention

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 7, 2016 | Leadership

Superstar hires don’t make up for toxic employees. This is the conclusion of a Harvard...

7 TED Talks to Improve Your Leadership

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Mar 4, 2016 | Leadership

Many of them actually want to be better too. But even for those visionary leaders, it’s hard to know where to start. There’s a lot of advice out there and quite a bit of it actually conflicts with each other.

Time magazine put together a list of 7 TED Talks to become a better leader. Each TED Talk brings its own message. Here they are:

1. Own Your Title – Drew Dudley: “Our society spends a lot of time idolizing people who achieve what very few can, making leadership feel like some far-off, earth-shattering thing that you’ll someday be worthy of. ‘Who am I to lead?’ Who are you not to lead? Your first act as manager should be casting aside any signs of imposter syndrome.”

2. Find Your First Follower – Derek Sivers: “‘The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.’ It only takes one person to support what you’re doing to bring along more follower, so long as you embrace them as equals and let them be partners in your plan.”

3. Don’t Favor the All Stars – Margaret Heffernan: ‘Margaret Heffernan cites evolutionary biology, which shows that extreme Darwinian environments full of only star players and top performers actually create such fierce competition that innovation and collaboration can’t happen….”