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Sandi is an up-and-coming marketing manager at a big tech company—at least she thought she was. Then she started receiving negative feedback in emails from…

Do you have an employee with performance problems? Every manager will have to deal with a difficult or struggling employee many times throughout their career….

When I joined a construction company as the head of their new human resources department, I was full of confidence. I had successfully built an…

I once worked with a VP of Operations who found it nearly impossible to praise the people who reported to him for doing good work….

In my previous article on How To Cure A Passive-Aggressive Culture, I made the case that the essence of leadership is to “go before” and…

Few leaders have earned a reputation for being an exceptional talent developer… but they’re out there. You may have heard of some of them. In…

What do you think is the most important thing you can do to become a more effective, successful leader? I often ask this question to…

I’ve been speaking and writing a lot about a seemingly counter-intuitive concept: putting employees ahead of customers and profits is the surest path to exceptional…

Over the last hundred years or so, companies have dreamed up increasingly complicated ways to pay people. As compensation practices became more sophisticated, they also…