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Everyone makes mistakes — including leaders. And poor decisions harm businesses. For example, Facebook’s failure to protect data privacy brought Mark Zuckerberg to a hearing, Volkswagen’s scandal centered on the “greenness” of their engines harmed its reputation and Kodak’s missed opportunities in d...
(Photo credit: Associated Press/Charles Krupa) Josh McDaniels is not exactly perceived to be an exemplary leader in some quarters. He is the offensive coordinator for arguably the most polarizing team in all of sports (that would be the New England Patriots). Recently, he turned down an offer to be ...
Last week, Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E.) made headlines again. The newly formed commission under the Trump administration sent a mass email on Saturday evening to over 2.3 million federal employees: Subject: What Did You Do Last Week?  Please reply to this email wi...
Katie Hackney, MS Katie Hackney is a director of the Beacon Hill Technologies Columbus branch. She was a pitcher on the Purdue University softball team from 2008-2012. Katie holds a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and a master’s degree in technology leadership from Purdue University. ...
Mean what you say; say what you mean. The sentiment expressed in the title may seem a bit overly obvious, but it strikes home on a point that is absolutely critical to the success of a start-up — credibility.  Credibility is a cornerstone of success that one simply can’t underestimate the value of. ...
Individuals who work for bully bosses experience injury to their well-being and job performance. [See our earlier blog —  “Working for Bully Bosses 101 ” — for an introduction to the topic.] It is natural, then, for targets of bullies to look for strategies they can use to cope with their bosses' be...
Ola Snow Ola Snow is chief human resources officer at Cardinal Health with oversight for the company’s Human Resources, Environmental Health and Safety, Security, Real Estate, Facilities and Aviation organizations. Essential to growth and success at Cardinal Health are the talented employees who str...
Matt Mallory Matt Mallory currently leads the Talent Development team at Bread Finanical in Columbus, Ohio. He publishes a blog of curated content each week called Monday Motivation, which touches upon timely and relevant topics related to leadership, self-discovery and career evolution. He holds a ...
Kaifeng Jiang Kaifeng Jiang is an associate professor of management and human resources at Fisher College of Business  He received his PhD in industrial relations and human resources from Rutgers University in 2013. He also got his bachelor's and master's degrees in Human Resource Management from Re...
A leadership team with whom I worked had a system for keeping close tabs on how they were doing against the competition and rallying their teams around crushing their opponents. The only problem: That competitor they were targeting was actually another division of the same company, and those opponen...