Sublime

The Jerk This smart-bad-employee type can crop up anywhere in the organization, but is particularly destructive at the executive level. At times, most executives can be pricks, dicks, a-holes, or a variety of equally profane nouns. I’d argue that being dramatically impolite can improve clarity or emphasize an important lesson—and anyway, that’s not

He was enthusiastic and ready to tackle what was ahead. I was feeling compassion for him though I knew the very next thing we should address would be Nate, a friend he considered loyal and an employee he allowed to be unaccountable and untouchable until now. It was time to meet Nate face-to-face, and address what should no longer be ignored. Would

At the third meeting of the board, Griscom reversed his approach, opening with a candid discussion of everything that was going wrong with the company and what was keeping him up at night. Although this tactic might be familiar in a debate, it was highly unconventional for an entrepreneur. Board members, though, responded much more favorably than t

Wolf CIOs protect their reputations by growling and not being soft targets Wolf CIOs build their reputations and their power by proactively communicating about their accomplishments and asking for help to deal with real issues. They also aggressively protect those hard-earned reputations by figuratively chewing up and scattering the body parts of t