John W. Ancelet, Jr.Language Want to Dramatically Improve Your Work Life? Start Having Radically Candid Conversations Inc Magazine - Jonas AltmanBetter communication starts with being more candid. We were in a trendy restaurant in east London. The conversation and drinks were flowing. At the end of the meal, my friend muttered, "This is going be...
John W. Ancelet, Jr.Steve Kerr 6 Powerful Leadership Lessons From World Champion Steve Kerr Inc Magazine - John EadesThere are leaders, then there are leaders like Golden State's head coach Steve Kerr. There are leaders, then there are great leaders. When you experience a great leader in everyday life, it's a different...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. New Managers Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Express Their Emotionsverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Kristi HedgesWarm. Funny. Sincere. Motivated. Deeply invested. Those were a few of the words I would’ve used to describe Tendai (his name and some details have been changed), a senior leader at a global manufacturing...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. 5 Questions to Ask About Corporate Culture to Get Beyond the Usual Meaningless Blatherverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Bill TaylorThere aren’t many leaders who would disagree with the idea that a healthy, productive culture is a defining element of business success. Yet I’ve seen so many companies with lofty-sounding “mission statements”...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. There’s No Such Thing as Big Data in HRverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Peter Cappelli“Big data” has become such a ubiquitous phrase that every function of business now feels compelled to outline how they are going to use it to improve their operations. That’s also true for Human Resources...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. What to Do When You Inherit a Team That Isn’t Working Hard Enoughverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Joseph GrennyPaula is a new manager. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she was handed a leaky bag. The branch she will now manage has some long-standing norms she sees as unproductive and possibly unethical....
John W. Ancelet, Jr. Leadership Takes Self-Control. Here’s What We Know About Itverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Kai Chi (Sam) Yam, and Huiwen Lian, and D. Lance Ferris, and Douglas BrownPhilosophers and psychologists have been discussing the importance of self-control for ages. Plato, for example, argued that the human experience is a constant struggle between our desire and rationality,...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. How to Manage a Needy Employeeverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Rebecca KnightAs a manager, you probably wish you could give all the people on your team more attention. But sometimes certain employees seem to need more than their fair share of your time. Maybe they repeatedly ask...
John W. Ancelet, Jr.Vacuums How You Define the Problem Determines Whether You Solve Itverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Art MarkmanTypical stories of creativity and invention focus on finding novel ways to solve problems. James Dyson found a way to adapt the industrial cyclone to eliminate the bag in a vacuum cleaner. Pablo Picasso...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. How to Manage a Team of All-Starsverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Michael MankinsWhen Bain & Company asked senior executives from 308 large companies how they form teams for their most important initiatives, most told us they assemble teams based on whoever is available. Only a small...
John W. Ancelet, Jr. The Ways Your Brain Manages Overload, and How to Improve Themverified_publisher Harvard Business Review - Srini PillayInformation overload is everywhere, from non-stop news to rat-a-tat email inboxes. At the receiving end of this deluge of verbiage is the human brain—your brain— metaphorically endowed with a vacuum cleaner...
