Perspectives

My father tells a story about driving one evening many years ago to a meeting in another town. After driving for a while, he noticed his boss' car behind him (No surprise as they were going to the same meeting.) After a short while, his boss passed him and zoomed...

I think I blundered into Stephen Covey's Seven Habits when I created yesterday's post on urgency. I wasn't even thinking that way when I started and I think I have to go back to Covey again and see what I can get out of it that's new. But meanwhile, Covey's problem...

I met a company recently that does a great job of creating a sense of urgency in their sales people. And they used a very simple trick. But first to urgency itself. We all love to procrastinate and I'm among the worst. I'll leave everything to the last minute if I can...

Referent Power sounds like one of those made up terms used by people who want to seem more intelligent. (Is it working so far?) But it is a real source of power in the workplace. I worked many years ago with a young woman who went out of her way to make people feel...

Do you ever wonder why everyone is afraid of the people in finance and like the people in HR. Well it comes down to Coercive Power versus Reward Power. Yup, HR has the ability to reward you. This can come in the way of job assignments, pay, benefits. Good things come...

A reader's post got me thinking about power in the workplace. Power, especially positional power, is often misunderstood and frequently misused. There are all sorts of different types of power including: Positional power Expert power Informational power Referent power...

In the last few days, I have read quite a few stories about Bossholes and I keep wondering, is there another perspective on these situations? After all, I'm sure that there are a few people out there who might consider me to be a Bosshole but I don't think I'm one. I...

A response from a faithful reader about yesterday's post got me thinking about the nature of Bossholism. The funny thing is that Bossholes aren't that way to everyone, just to subordinates and other unworthies. After all, Steve Jobs was infamous for being a Bosshole...