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Key takeaways: Leaders have to use personal and organizational assets to be successful. Leaders should make sure that they are adding value above and beyond what individuals could achieve without them. One of the important things any new leader needs to understand is that leadership effectiveness is...
Key Takeaways: Leaders who include team members in the development of their jobs and management of their own performance provide a source of intrinsic motivation to them, enhancing their engagement and commitment to the organization. Coaching team members for self-management and accountability can ...
Key Takeaways Promoting a culture where team members feel safe to speak up with candor to disagree or point out problems is not only healthy for organizations, but it can be essential for thwarting negative outcomes with potentially disastrous results. Leaders have a responsibility to promote this ...
Last week, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) made headlines again. The newly formed commission under the Trump administration sent a mass email on Saturday evening to over 2.3 million federal employees: Subject: What Did You Do Last Week? Please reply to this email wi...
About Lead Read Today is a platform from The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business’ Leadership Initiative that provides evidence-based leadership and management best practices to assist current or emerging leaders. All of our articles have leadership as a core theme, and the majority of o...
Mean what you say; say what you mean. The sentiment expressed in the title may seem a bit overly obvious, but it strikes home on a point that is absolutely critical to the success of a start-up — credibility. Credibility is a cornerstone of success that one simply can’t underestimate the value of. ...
Individuals who work for bully bosses experience injury to their well-being and job performance. [See our earlier blog — “Working for Bully Bosses 101 ” — for an introduction to the topic.] It is natural, then, for targets of bullies to look for strategies they can use to cope with their bosses' be...
Christophe Boone Christophe Boone is a professor of organization theory and behavior at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research focuses on the dynamics of organizational populations in local communities, the antecedents and consequences of team and organi...
Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) have become one of the most popular workplace topics of the year. More and more organizations start to establish new DEI-related leadership roles, such as a chief diversity officers or VPs of DEI to plan and lead organization-wide initiatives. With all these n...
"Why not us? Why not now?" The refrain and inspiring battle cry of the 1995 Orlando Magic basketball team has once again ignited within the hearts and minds of athletes today — this time among those who have become activists for social change. Athlete activism is not a new phenomenon. Throughout his...
