I often encounter various cultures that exhibit control in different ways. In some of these cultures, employees are exposed to autocratic leaders whose leadership style ensures these employees will not take initiative. In fact, in some highly controlled cultures, I have encountered leaders who go as far as saying “I don’t pay you to think, [...]
I once watched an excerpt from a movie where an officer walked by a higher ranking officer, and did not salute. They both knew it was intentional and the higher ranked officer stopped the other officer and said we salute the rank, not the man. So the lower ranked officer straightened his posture and saluted [...]
I once met with a group of managers and we had what turned out to be a spirited conversation about why it makes sense for them to show members of their teams they care about and value them. One manager blurted, “I don’t have time to spoon-feed adults.” Another explained she was always told to [...]
In many organizations, the CEO, Managing Director, Board and/or owner are the primary architects of the culture whether they are aware of it, or not. In organizations where the CEO is predisposed toward innovation and change, when the right employees are hired they can keep up with the dynamism. More specifically, when employees can match [...]
We have all experienced situations where we are with a friend, and they run into an old friend and start to reminisce about their past. You witness the shared emotions, cadence, language, and pace, while most likely feeling left out. When in a conversational flow state like this, the rhythm, language, and pace can leave [...]
Satisfaction, networking, community, achievement, balance, decision making, health, and influence. Can you imagine what kind of leader you would be if you scored high in all of these domains? Can you imagine a workplace fueled with employees who excel in each of these categories? According to Yvette Bethel, a co-creator of the Trust Style Inventory [...]
Yvette Bethel's latest book, Interconnectivity, Flow, and Balance Model (IFB) introduces an operating system that functions in the background of all ecosystems, including organizations, families, and multiple other types of communities. Like computer operating systems, IFB is ever-present, not always perceived, and prolific. It arranges your organization’s internal ecosystem around inherent rules of behavioral, change, and other [...]
With new emphasis on innovation, change, and mergers, modern organizations are finding themselves in a new situation of nearly constantly re-designing their organizational chart. According to recent research by McKinsey, 60% of corporate respondents said they experienced an organizational redesign in the past 2 years. And yet, according to the same research, less than a [...]
You have no doubt encountered the term functional alcoholic. These are persons who seem to be functioning because they appear to be responsible and productive despite their condition. Functional alcoholics rarely miss work because of their condition, and even though some of them may excel at their jobs, persons who report to them are aware [...]
When leaders think of reinventing themselves they start with shifting the way they think and feel. Sometimes this happens unwillingly, when something earth shattering happens in their lives. At other times they are exposed to a different way of thinking, one that their background prepared them to resonate with. Regardless the cause, these leaders experience [...]
