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14Jul2013

Leadership as doing nothing

  • By Ian Bradley
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Volumes have been written about leadership.  The job description is already long from the macro of seeing the larger picture to the micro of managing conflict and mentoring.  Whether one is talking about communicating a clear vision or inspiring the team to reach its potential, the successful leader is always portrayed as being active.  Leading
14May2012

Bosses who destroy motivation

  • By Ian Bradley
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Draft a memo that I might use to prop up sales in the mid-west and then provide me with some stats showing how sales have fallen over the last quarter… Sounds like something reasonable for a boss to direct a subordinate to do.  Probably, some phrase like this is asked by bosses throughout the world
31Mar2010

Mistakes: do we learn from them? Part II

  • By Ian Bradley
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In my previous post, I shared my view on how CEO’s and managers discuss mistakes in their executive coaching sessions with me.  I pointed out how much the discussions focused on the emotional consequences of the mistake and not the underlying cognitive process.  I offered that my own profession of clinical psychology didn’t do a
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