Awesome Leaders: The Bell Curve of Performance
Welcome back! Your direct reports will represent a bell curve. At one tail end of the curve are the people who struggle. Your job is to help them improve. It's up to you to figure out what is wrong and help them fix it. The solution will be dependent on that individual and their specific [...]
Awesome Leaders: Equitable, Not Equal
Welcome back! As a leader, your goal is to treat people equitably, not equally. For example, if someone is able to produce 20 widgets a day, and someone else is only able to produce 10, and your company's minimum per day is 10, then both of your workers are meeting the goal. And that's good [...]
Awesome Leaders: Learn Your People
Welcome back! As a leader you can make a tremendous impact in a way that no one else can. Bear this responsibility wisely! The joy of leadership is learning about your people, what matters to them, what upsets them, what motivates them, what optimizes their abilities, where their growth needs are, and then guiding them [...]