by Jonathan | Jan 31, 2020 | Future of Leadership Letter
Welcome to the New Year! Welcome to the inaugural Future of Leadership monthly letter. Every month I will be going deeper on a fundamental concept for the future of leadership. Get the newsletter by signing up in the footer below. *** Fire Good People How do you fire...
by Jonathan | Jan 28, 2020 | Leadership
Tuesday Tactic: Surf the silence. I often hear inexperienced (and experienced!) podcast interviewers ask a good question and then, while the interviewee is formulating an answer, fill all the silence by elaborating. Drives me nuts! We also do this as leaders. We step...
by Jonathan | Jan 27, 2020 | Leadership
How do you encourage your team to critically think? Critical thinking will be among the most important skills in the future workplace. A recent World Economic Forum article placed this skill second only to “critical problem solving.” The two are related. ...
by Jonathan | Jan 24, 2020 | Leadership
Delta Airlines announced it was sharing $1.6b of profits with its employees payable on Valentine’s Day. Some people throw around these numbers like this without enough context. It equates to a two-month bonus for each of its 90,000 people. Pretty good, right?...
by Jonathan | Jan 23, 2020 | Leadership
I hate the phone. It’s a new hate. I am old enough to remember when the phone was it (except for face to face). Back then the phone was fine. Things are different now. It’s actually not the phone, it’s phone calls. It’s the audacity of the...
