Using one hand count what you feel are the most important leadership traits. If you listed, “the ability to listen”–congratulations, you don’t need to tune into CBS’s new reality TV show, Undercover Boss.
The premise of the show is simple. They take a leader and throw him or her into the trenches of their business disguised as a normal person. A camera crew closely follows the resulting frictions and revelations by posing as documentary filmmakers researching  …

Day-in-day-out drudgery is the nemesis of employee engagement. The challenge for leaders is not simply how to engage, but how to reengage others when drudgery has set in. When the drama is forgotten, when the sense of purpose is diminished, leaders must reinvigorate others be reaffirming the common coalition mindset by reengaging their role by:
1. Reinvigorating the vision
2. Reinforcing the benefits
3. Sustaining the optimism
4. Maintaining credibility

The other day a colleague of mine who is a HR VP told me that employee engagement was “hot.” The way he stated it leads one to believe that employee engagement is a new concern, a new concept, a new philosophy, or, if you will, a new mantra.
I was a bit astonished if not perplexed. It never dawned on me that the notion of employee engagement had been on some invisible back burner and was …

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