Tired of the crisis and sometimes scared because the old tools in the 5.0 revolution don’t work like they used to. Leaders and managers have been struggling for several years with the difficulty of uniting people around the idea of the organization. Knowledge about everything in the organization is passé, and artificial intelligence will do […] …
The Curse of Knowledge Bias in Leaders and Other Communication Pitfalls It’s interesting how many times each of us has heard that communication is one of the key elements of effective leadership. It seems like a truism that every leader or manager is well aware of. It’s obvious that to achieve common goals, a leader […] …
Master your own emotions and you will master the team’s emotions Increasingly, organizations are realizing that a leader’s emotional intelligence level impacts the effectiveness of their team management and performance. In this article, I will discuss why collaborating with emotions is crucial in team leadership, what the most common challenges for leaders are, what problems […] …
Recently I talked to a friend I hadn’t seen for a long time. An economist by education and a senior director by profession. An outstanding, proactive person with a great sense of humor and equally great knowledge and experience. After exchanging general information about our life and professional situations, I heard, “My team is great. […] …
As managers, we often find ourselves in situations where our subordinates are better trained in a particular field than we are. After all, our role is to lead the team and achieve desired results, not to be an expert in everything. That’s why we build our teams with the most qualified individuals, which means with […] …
Burnout or work fatigue? When do we lose the deep meaning of what we do professionally? As a psychologist practicing in “business”, I have noticed for some time a strong trend of searching for meaning. A meaning other than a salary increase at work or “paying off a loan” or an exotic vacation. More and […] …
“Values are as important for people as they are for businesses – they allow people to live with dignity and die with a sense of fulfillment, and they give businesses a chance at immortality”. Sławomir Lechowski In a world of constant change, information overload, and the dynamic development of new technologies, the only way to […] …
There’s a common saying that employees don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Why is it that I observe some leaders, listen to them with interest, and want to collaborate with them, while at the same time, another manager’s communication and management style on the very same topic bores me or discourages me from cooperating? It […] …
Many years ago, Peter Drucker wrote, “Organizational culture eats strategy for breakfast.” It turns out that even a clear vision and organizational strategy planned by a CEO, without considering the organizational culture, has little chance of implementation; more precisely, only 1 in 3 strategies has a chance in such a case. Many studies, including those […] …
Words that seemingly mean little turn out to be one of the most crucial elements in processes such as initiating behaviors, motivation, or decision-making. We think in words, or rather in the meanings we assign, as well as in images and sounds, and all these processes are often automated and unconscious. Do I Need Self-Belief […] …
