I was intrigued recently to read an article in The Huffington Post (find it here) that identified eleven ineffective leadership styles. It was hard while reading not to assign the names of people I have worked with through the years against these. It was even harder when I realised I …
Micromanaging Could be Killing Your Employees
Sunday, November 6, 2016Very recent research has looked at how having less freedom in a high-stress job can increase the likelihood of employee death by over 15%. Chad Brooks provides a great summary of this research in a blog (read it here). Interestingly, where employees have control within their high-demand jobs, there is …
Multitasking Doesn’t Work!
Sunday, October 23, 2016I have met a lot of people in life who have been very proud and vocal about their ability to multitask, notwithstanding I am a male and supposedly have diminished multitasking abilities. However, a recent article from Andrew Medal in the Entrepreneur blog (find it here) suggests multitasking is not …
Managing Up
Sunday, October 9, 2016There is plenty of advice out there on how to lead and manage teams, and we at ABS have presented many of these. However, in a recent Business News Daily blog Nicole Fallen Taylor writes about a different perspective to managing – managing your boss, or managing up. You can …
How To Do Sick days
Friday, September 23, 2016Recently I felt a bit out of sorts, but was proud that I was able to “soldier on” and still turn up to work and get a few things done. But I was challenged about the real virtue of doing that, and found an article in ‘The Muse’ by Richard …
Why Leaders Lack Emotional Intelligence
Sunday, September 11, 2016Travis Bradberry is the author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, and in a recent blog in Inc.com explained the counter-intuitive situation of CEOs having the lowest level of emotional intelligence (EQ). You can find the article here. Through his organisation TalentSmart, Bradberry analysed over one mission EQ profiles across the spectrum …