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Japanese Business Practices, Start-Ups, and Innovation
NOTE: I’m writing this blog post as I’m sitting in the kitchen of my brother-in-law’s house right in the heart of Tokyo, Japan. My wife and I will be here for a while to tend to family health matters....
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Analysis Paralysis-A Self-Imposed Bottleneck
In a conversation about how, in one organization, management had known for quite some time what needed to be done, but they just didn’t do it, a professor inquired: “What purpose might it serve for an...
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Silly Job Titles Are Not Funny
Photo Credit: Flickr Forbes had a funny post earlier this year about the silly job titles that some top executives now carry. These include Chief Listening Officer (Kodak), Chief Listener (Dell),...
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How Expertise can Strengthen or Dilute your Credibility
Photo Credit: Flickr Japanese television offers a wide selection of variety shows. Unlike those in the U.S., Japanese variety shows will invite a group of “talents” (although I’m still not sure what...
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Half-Truths and Omission of Facts in Selling
Photo Credit: Flickr My first job was working for a sporting goods store in a mall. I was really excited because it was a well-known company and had a sister company selling athletic shoes and...
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Snakes in Suits? Maybe Not — Psychopathy According to DSM-IV TR
Photo Credit: Flickr I thought I would repost my comments to a discussion question in the SIOP (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology) group on LinkedIn about the notion of “corporate...
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Strategic Leaders-Challenges, Organizational Abilities & Individual...
Photo Credit: Flickr I’ve written before about the challenges of successfully executing strategy. In this post, I’ll clarify the difference between leadership and strategic leadership. I’ll also...
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Keeping Your Clients Informed and Providing A Timely Response Are Essential...
Photo Credit: Flickr I have written before about customer service on this blog (e.g., poor customer service hurts your business and customers leave you because of poor customer service). In this post,...
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Organizational Diversity Initiatives
Photo Credit: Flickr Diversity initiatives usually sound great on paper and on an organization’s website. However, upon closer inspection, it is easy to see that there often exists a huge gap between...
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People with a Situational Value System
The other night, my wife and I were at a very nice hotel here in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We went with our family to enjoy a show and prior to attending it, decided to get some coffee. As we were...
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Leadership and Management: Are They Different?
Photo Credit: Flickr Northouse (2013) wrote that leadership and management are similar in many ways. Both involve influencing, achieving goals, and working with people. However, while they may share...
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology’s Identity Crisis and How to Fix It
Photo Credit: Flickr Recently, I’ve been struck by how “stuck” people and even organizations are in defining who they are and determining where they’re going. In particular, I have been very...
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Workplace Bullying: It’s Not Employee Dissatisfaction and Why It’s Different...
Photo Credit: Flickr This post is in response to an article titled “Thou Shalt Not Bully” that was posted on HCOnline, Australia’s online magazine for senior human resource professionals and corporate...
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Why Leadership Is Important and Why People Want to Be Followers
Photo Credit: Flickr I posted this recently in a leadership MOOC course. The question was, “Why do you think leadership is important?” Here’s my response: I believe leadership is important because if...
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Can Apple Remain Innovative Without Their Visionary Leader?
Photo Credit: Flickr In January 2009, Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “No American CEO is more intimately identified with his company’s success. Jobs is deeply involved in every facet...
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Developing Your Leadership Presence – The Role of Physical Movement
Photo Credit: Businessmen We hear a great deal about leadership and the qualities of being a leader. One thing I have personally noticed and practiced is something called command presence. It’s the...
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Values-Based Leadership
Photo Credit: Flickr Values-Based Leadership Professor Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management says a values-based leader aims to motivate and inspire...
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Big Data – More Headache Than Elixir
Photo Credit: Flickr In the past two years, I have ended the year writing about different charities. In 2011, I wrote about charity: water, and in 2012, I talked about Room to Read. This year, I want...
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The Truth About Leadership: “You Make a Difference and You Can’t Do It Alone”
Here is a fantastic 13-minute TEDx Talk by Barry Posner, co-author (with James Kouzes) of the book, The Leadership Challenge, and Professor of Leadership at the Leavey School of Business at Santa...
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Book Review: Scaling Up Excellence
As owner of the WorkplacePsychology.Net website, which continues to get a high number of visitors daily, I am frequently asked to review books. In fact, publicists and sometimes even authors will ask...
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