When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur. – Robert Rosenthal and Elisha Babad Employees generally rise to our expectations of them. This is known as the self-fulfilling prophecy or Pygmalion Effect. It’s true because we treat people a certain way [...]
George Lucas’s latest film Red Tails is the true, inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen who were American pilots and heroes in World War II. It recounts the story of American men who wanted to fight for their country in real combat but were not initially allowed to do so because they were considered unqualified [...]
If we lose our core values, we lose ourselves. – Henry McCoy
Happy New Year and welcome to the January 2012 edition of the Management Journey Carnival! We’re off to a good start with the first Carnival Edition for this year. Topics for this month’s Management Journey Blog Carnival include time management, change leadership, employee engagement, interpersonal effectiveness, social business, generational management, motivation, innovation, organizational learning, teamwork, [...]
Had he not been taken from us so young, being only 39 years old, Dr. Martin Luther King would have been 83 years old today. His commitment to non-violent, direct action to address our country’s sad history of race relations is now acknowledged worldwide as one of America’s greatest achievements in the last century. Dr. [...]
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. – John C. Maxwell
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ― Lao Tzu
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ [...]
