Interesting Leadership Reading
Wednesday July 8, 2009
Although I write about leadership topics myself (Leadership Skills) I enjoy finding great leadership articles by others. Here are a few I discovered today:
- Tips for being an inspirational leader. Not sure I agree with the 3rd bullet point. What do you think? Click "comments" link below.
- Being a Bad Leader: 5 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Abilities Through Communication. Done in the reverse style (like my article Top 10 New Manager Mistakes) it's a good read.
- Cut turnover and save. I agree that "turnover can kill you", but I don't know that I'd go so far as to undersell. What about just being frank and honest?
Add your comments below.
On point number 3 I would agree to a point. However when a person is peforming a job, regardless of thzat job they are acting in a professional manner and as such any personal matters remain in their personal life not in their careers. Involving ourselves as managers in an employee’s personal life with anything more than some time off to bring things back together in their personal lives is 1) an invasion of their privacy even if it’s asked for. It will usually blow up on you eventually. And 2) very dangerous ass one is almost immediately drawn into confrontational situations where we can be forced to take sides in a situation where we usually don’t know all the facts.
Sorry I got kind of olng winded there but any more than a minimal amount of involvement is a bad idea.