Different Economic Realities Call for Different Leadership Skills
Leadership’s ability to renew the spirit, energy and focus of anxious, dis-spirited employees is the key to building a sustainable organization in the new global economy. But yesterday’s leadership skills are no longer enough to achieve this.
Dr. Sandy Gluckman and Ed Rankin are combining their [...]
What is Corporate Culture?
What is this thing we call ‘culture?’ My favorite definition of culture is, ‘a way of life’. This is true for organizations, families, friendships, marriages, colleges and countries. In fact, wherever there is a group, be it small or large, there is a culture… a way of life, or ‘the [...]
It seems to me that some organizations look at culture as though it is something ‘out there’, floating around in the passageways, something that has a life of its own; something that can be measured with culture surveys.
I define culture as, ‘the way things are done around here.’ Think about an organization. It does not [...]
The business environment is abound with games that people play– boardroom games, political games, one-upmanship games, money games , entitlement games, greed games– to name only a few.
A ‘game’ is the kind of non-authentic interaction that occurs in a relationship when someone has a personal agenda and is attempting to influence an outcome to their [...]
By Sandy Gluckman PhD
Author of ‘Who’s in the Driver’s Seat; Using Spirit to Lead Successfully’
The concept of spirited economics refers to the ability of organizations to achieve extraordinary profits and obtain the projected economic outcomes by putting the spirit of the people to work.
One of the core issues of spirited economics is asking and [...]