Introvert Advantage in Leadership Competencies
On April 3rd, I presented a webinar comparing the 25 workplace competencies of the TTI TriMetrix™ HD Assessment and The Complete Leader with the natural strengths of introversion. I gave rationale for my leanings toward introversion or extroversion as having a natural advantage or disadvantage for each. As I explained, you may see things differently. I would love to hear from you if that’s the case. Read More
Devaluing Others in Conflict
I’ve written previously in Pushing Back Entropy about my personal contention that devaluation of others always precedes conflict in the form of direct or indirect attack. Listening to Ron Price explain axiology this morning, that process became a bit clearer for me. So adding to what I’ve said previously, let me try to explain the process of moving toward conflict through the lens of axiology.Read More
Introvert Revolution
To the Price Associates related network, I want to make you all aware of a new blog that I am beginning. The subject of the blog is the intersection of introversion and leadership. As the title suggests, I am advocating for a revolution of sorts on the part of quiet leaders who tend more toward introversion than extroversion. Read More
Budget for Team Development
It’s late November and most of you may have already begun (or even completed) your budgeting for 2014. If you haven’t or even if you have, I’m curious what you budgeted for the development of organizational health for the coming year?Read More
The Introverted Leader, Part 2
Who makes the best leader? Extroverts? Introverts? It depends. According to a 2011 study, “research now suggests that leading in an introverted manner is a key to success.”[1] Context is everything. This statement, according to Adam Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Francesca Gino, Harvard University, and David Hofmann, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is true where employees that work for the introverted leader are proactive. What the study actually concluded was that the superior style of leadership varied according to this key organizational metric.Read More
Getting Input from the Whole Team
Excellent leaders know the importance, power and leverage of receiving the best ideas from each and every member of their team. It is in the context of the interchange of ideas that often the best and most creative team solutions emerge. The methodology we follow at times, however, works against achieving this end. Think about your own process for assuring the highest level of participation from each member of your team.Read More
Elephants in the Office
We use this metaphor to describe the elephants that live among our teams in the workplace. They’ve often been present for so long that we’ve learned quite adeptly to navigate around them, leaving them in tact and untouched. This has, by the way, at times been quite difficult due to their growing circumference juxtaposed to the fixed and growingly constrained size of our office space. Read More
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence
Team Dynamics Specialist Andy Johnson talks about the importance of emotional intelligence to organizational success. Read More
Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family Businesses
Book Review: Keeping the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business: Avoiding the Seven Deadly Sins That Destroy Family Businesses, by Quentin J. Fleming
Family businesses are interesting organizations. They often struggle to differentiate two different, but frequently overlapping, systems: the family system and the business system. In “healthy” family businesses, these two competing worlds are skillfully and intentionally managed and kept in their respective places. Far too often, however, the family system inserts itself into the business and creates unique and dire challenges.Read More