By Ranjit Nair, Ph.D.
Strategy for Life Magazine, April 2015
So what do you do if your company doesn’t have a story to tell, or if the story you do have isn’t one that is resonating with your customers and employees? Here are three easy ways to develop your company’s new beginning.Read More
Culture shifts and conflict management training bring about $100K savings for TCL program participant
Superior Farms has been an employee-owned company through its Employee Stock Ownership Plan for years, and recently engaged in new efforts to continue to enhance its culture of true ownership and teamwork.Read More
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
A “pitfall” is an unsuspected danger, a trap masquerading as a safe path. They’re easy to fall into – and even harder to dig yourself out of – which is why the best protection is a heightened sense of awareness that what seems safe may not be.Read More
A “pitfall” is an unsuspected danger, a trap masquerading as a safe path. They’re easy to fall into – and even harder to dig yourself out of – which is why the best protection is a heightened sense of awareness that what seems safe may not be.
Aspiring inspirational leaders starting or growing their businesses need to be on the look out for these seemingly safe behaviors that can, over time, have a disastrous impact on company culture.Read More
A Leader’s Guide to Working Together, Forming Deep Relationships, and Achieving Business Success
We are told that success is about strategy. Or innovation. Or just plain luck. Executive coach and author Whit Mitchell learned that success actually comes from your ability to work together and form deep relationships. Whit first learned this lesson when coaching crew at Dartmouth in the early 80’s. Read More
I really LIKE my kids.
I have three of them. They are all adults now; 31, 29 and 23. We were together over the weekend for some BBQ and game playing. Our family is pretty much addicted to board games. There is always a new one to learn.Read More
In the world of leadership development, we often hear words like “problem solving,” “goal setting,” and “talent,” but very rarely do we hear about the importance of listening and how learning to master this art can transform our workplaces and our organizations.Read More
You’re reluctant to speak up at meetings. The issue may not be that you don’t have ideas to contribute, but that you’re one of those people who prefer to reflect carefully on information before making pronouncements. Other people may interpret this as holding back, fear of looking bad, or reluctance to speak on the record so you’re not accountable. These perceptions can derail your career, so you need to address them. But how?Read More
I was very honored to have my new book, Bumper Sticker Leadership: One-Liner Wisdom on Life and Business, featured in the Business Book Review section of Business Lexington. Thank you Paul Sanders for writing about the book!Read More