Leadership Lessons from a Horse’s Mouth
Today's guest post is from June Gunter, Ed. D. and CEO of TeachingHorse, LLC. ---------------- I am the Co-Founder and CEO of TeachingHorse, LLC. TeachingHorse provides leadership development and coaching…
Books we Trust: Jacob Morgan’s The Future of Work
Jacob Morgan is the author of the newly released, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization (Wiley). He is also the principal…
Relationships or Metrics? I Haven’t Got Time for Both
I heard it again today. I hear it in almost every workshop I do, and in every – bar none – big company sales organization I work with. It sounds…
Why Some Men Don’t Trust Women In The Workplace
(And Why Some Women Don't Trust Men, And How to Break The Vicious Cycle) Nobody, it seems, wants to talk about one of the most important dynamics of the modern…
A Better New Year’s Resolution
Happy New Year! I wrote a good blog post at this time seven years ago, and haven’t improved on it yet. Here it is again. Happy New Year. —————– My…
Integrity: What’s Up With That?
Like trust, integrity is something we all talk about, meaning many different things, but always assuming that everyone else means just what we do. That leads to some vagueness and…
Six Reasons We Don’t Trust Wall Street
In 2013, finance is the least trusted industry globally. It hasn’t always been this way. Within the industry, it’s tempting to think that trust can be regained by reputation management. Reputation is…
DON’T Always Exceed Expectations
Many of us go around repeating a mantra that we think is self-evidently correct: Under-promise and over-deliver, we say. Always exceed expectations. There is a website ExceedAllExpectations. Another website, HowTo.gov, tells governmental…
S&P and the New Challenge of Integrity in Business
We've all read tales of corporate wrongdoing – think Bernie Madoff, Enron, LIBOR. In most cases, managers engaged in nefarious behavior, knowing they were doing wrong. There are a few…
Why We Don’t Trust Companies Part IV: The Solution
My last three posts – here, and here, and here – were about why we don't trust companies. To review the bidding, I've said it's because: Trust is predominantly personal in nature – a fact…