Leadership

You’ve recently been awarded a promotion over your teammates.  You’re scared to death because you’ve read that co-workers don’t respond well to those that have been promoted over them.  The general mentality is that now you have a different title, you’re above them, better than them. The great truth is that someone above you saw

2014 article in the NY Daily News reported that 70% of US employees were miserable.  That’s almost ¾ of the workforce!  AND, that was back in 2014.  Sadly, in late 2018, the statistic was virtually the same.  What does that reflect?  It says that leaders are having a hard time keeping their employees engaged and stimulated. We have seen a shift

“I can do it by myself.”  How many times in life have you said that, heard it from a friend, child, parent, teammate, co-worker, boss and/or employee?  I am sure that there have been far more instances than we care to count when we have either uttered those words or lived by that phrase (or

Daily life is constantly evolving, organizations are evolving, careers and positions are evolving, the job markets are evolving.  As a leader, what are you doing to evolve?  Let’s digress a minute and simply focus on the word: Latin:  Evolvere – to unroll, open, unfold, but that was in 1645.  The definition in today’s dictionary is: 

Hmmm, you may say to yourself, what is an archetype?  In reviewing the ever-omnipotent world of Merriam-Webster, the definitions are: (1) the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies: prototype, a perfect example, (2) an idea.  Now that you have the completely vague definition, in layman’s