Whitepapers

Observe, read, ask, listen, and learn. Stretch your mind, and you’ll learn new skills.   As a small business, your agility is a primary competitive advantage. Here's how you can build more--and an unbeatable team. Being agile means being quick--responding to things quickly and acting quickly. Agility is a trait of successful leader. Not surprisingly, it's also a trait of…

Leading your team through change–whether it’s new leadership, a reorganization, a merger or acquisition–can be extremely daunting. Here’s how to do it.   Change is constantly happening on your team and in business. Whether it’s new leadership, a reorganization, a merger or acquisition, successfully leading a team through change is hard, and it presents both…

Learning that a co-worker earns more than you can decrease your job performance while increasing the likelihood of you searching for a new job, according to a new research study. On the other hand, learning what your manager makes can prompt you to work harder . The results of the study were recently published in How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons, co-written by…

Just becoming a leader is enough to exacerbate some people’s unethical tendencies. But power does not corrupt everyone. Our research suggests that key personality characteristics predict unethical leadership behavior. We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., integrity, accountability) on 3,500 leaders across 30 organizations we had…

Burnout is prevalent, has a significant impact on the health, happiness, and productivity of employees, and is totally preventable.   One of the biggest dangers to you and your team is burnout, and organizations are facing an employee burnout crisis, according to research by Gallup. Twenty-three percent of employees reporting feeling burned out at work “often or always,” while…