There are probably few people who haven’t run into that self-assured, slightly enigmatic line: “I’m an uncomfortable leader.” The intended message is that discomfort is the price of success—a leader pushes people out of their comfort zones, dusts off stale ideas, overturns old habits, and brings in wins that other approaches wouldn’t deliver. But when […]
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Leadership is easy 11/25 Start the exit process with the manager A department manager walks into their boss’s office and says, “We’ve got a problem… Mary has submitted her resignation. Looks like we didn’t raise her salary enough.” The standard playbook kicks in: schedule an exit interview, ask what we should do better next time,
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Leadership is easy 10/25 Generational theory 3: Education and Learning – miks sünniaasta ei määra sinu teadmisi The notion that people’s skills and attitudes are determined by their birth year is convenient — but misleading. We often hear that Boomers cling to paper files while Gen Z can use every app with their eyes closed.
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Leadership is easy 09/25 Generational Theory 2: Family and upbringing – values don’t flow from generational theory Imagine someone standing up at a leadership seminar and confidently declaring: “Millennials value freedom, Boomers value stability, Gen Z wants everything fast.” The audience nods, the PowerPoint slides roll, and suddenly people walk away believing that entire generations
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Leadership is easy 08/25 Generational Theory: Serious Thought Experiment or Blinkered Draft Horse? Greetings, dear reader! Imagine that someone invented an idea-box, where we throw people in according to their year or period of birth — Baby Boomer, Generation X, Millennial, Generation Z. Add in a generous dose of dissolving powder, shake the box vigorously,
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