How To Interview Your Prospective Boss for Leadership Potential
By Michelle Malay Carter on February 6, 2010
Let’s face it - your boss can make or break your work experience. S/he provides you context (aka the big picture), gives you your assignments, provides your resources, integrates your work with your peers, assesses your performance and helps build your skills in your current role.
Because of this, when you are interviewing for a job [...]
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If You Design It, They Will Engage. Executive Leadership and Requisite Organization Design
By Michelle Malay Carter on January 1, 2010
Trees and flowers don’t strive to grow. It’s built right into their DNA to grow and to bountifully produce.
Executives Should Take a Page from Farmers
Executive leadership should be concerned about creating the conditions necessary for employees to flourish. People are wired to work. They want to produce and produce bountifully.
Farmers don’t spend their days tending to individual [...]
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Engaging Employees Through Operationalizing Good Power, Starving Bad Power, and Disallowing No Power
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 21, 2009
I was struck by a message on Good Power Versus Bad Power at my house of worship last week. It occurred to me that this is what PeopleFit endeavors to do within Managerial Hierarchies.
Throwing The Baby Out with the Bathwater - Egalitarianism
We are kidding ourselves to believe managerial hierarchies can be egalitarian. Power must be exercised. We can [...]
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Even Leaders Have Leaders - How Do We Sort Out Who Leads Whom?
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 15, 2009
Employees Crave True Leadership
Employees don’t begrudge being led. They resent being asked to submit to the leadership of someone who doesn’t add value to their thinking.
Management Myth Busted
Simply having more experience does not automatically qualify someone to be a thought leader for anyone with less experience.
Danger, Danger - Promotions by Tenure
Many a mistake has been made promoting [...]
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Doing Things Right Versus Doing the Right Things - Operational Work Versus Strategic Work
By Michelle Malay Carter on December 10, 2009
We can convert the famous Peter Drucker quote about management being doing things right and leadership being doing the right things into requisite work levels speak.
What Drucker was drawing a line between was the operational work levels in an organization and the strategic work levels in an organization.
Doing Things Right aka Current Operations
The work of [...]
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The Overcommitted Employee - When No Amount of Training Will Help
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 29, 2009
Mismatch to Role
As much as Americans hate to admit it. There are some jobs that are beyond the cognitive reach of some employees. No amount of training, coaching, or personal effort will help the situation. Today we will look at the behaviors a manager might see in this instance.
What to Do?
We all mature in cognitive, [...]
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What Are Your Employees Thankful For? Fruitful Work or Fruit Baskets?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 25, 2009
It’s Thanksgiving week in the US. I will resume my current post series next week. In the meantime, I want to recognize my mentors by saying:
May God bless those who have been put on this earth to teach and to those who generously impart their gifts without concern toward personal gain or status. I live [...]
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The Dark Side of the Underutilized Employee - Fire them or promote them?
By Michelle Malay Carter on November 13, 2009
What to Do About Attitude Problems
One of my most popular articles is What To Do About Attitude Problems? Promote them! This article explores the negative behaviors a manager might experience not because an employee is unqualified for a job, but because she is cognitively overqualified.
As I’ve said before, high capability does not always mean high [...]
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How To Motivate Employees - Newsflash: It’s Not a Manager’s Job
By Michelle Malay Carter on October 2, 2009
Red Herrings
Motivation is a side effect, not the goal. Because we operate under faulty assumptions about work and human nature, well-intentioned managers, organizational development consultants, and human resource professionals spend a lot of time chasing red herrings. I wrote an entire poem on this subject, Organization Design - Seek and Ye Shall Find.
What is a [...]
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Mission Minded Management Turns Two - I’m OK. You’re OK. Let’s Fix the System.
By Michelle Malay Carter on September 25, 2009
Turning two this week is Mission Minded Management, PeopleFit’s organization design, executive leadership, and operational management blog that draws its theory from the meta-model Requisite Organization and draws its contents from the author’s work and life experiences.
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Here were the most-read posts published this year:
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