Twenty Four BRAVE Frameworks for a Happy New Year

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Happy New Year!  My gift to you is 24 BRAVE frameworks that can help make your coming year happier.  Headlines here.  Click through to the original articles (on a combination of Forbes.com and PrimeGenesis) for more. Happiness is good – Three goods: good for others, good for me, good at it Five components of BRAVE [...]

Five Keys to Managing an Unpredictable Boss

  Wouldn’t it be nice if management theory actually worked in practice? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could follow the tenets of The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan to get your strategic, operating, and organizational processes in place and let them run without interruption? Wouldn’t it be nice if your boss had perfect leadership [...]

Steve Jobs and the Power of a Passionate Focus

  Focus.  This article is about the power of focus.  The key take away is the need to drive a message you are passionate about against as few points as possible, and ideally one main, overriding imperative. In this case, focus. Clear? It’s a lesson reinforced by Steve Jobs, Bill Clinton, JK Rowling, and others. [...]

Steve Jobs’ Wake Analysis

  You can learn a lot about a manager by the debris he or she leaves in his or her wake.  Some managers leave a trail of broken and disillusioned people behind them that never recover from getting run over by the manager.  Others leave behind high-performing leaders that go on to do great things. [...]

Why Apple is Doing Well Without Steve Jobs

  In January 2011 Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced he was taking a medical leave of absence. Apple COO, Tim Cook, is now responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations. So far so good.  I’d like to call attention to some of the leadership skills he's evidencing and things he’s doing particularly well as the interim [...]