We all complain about our bosses. I can’t even say how many conversations I’ve been in where someone is criticizing the boss. Comments like this are not uncommon:

He (or she) doesn’t have a clue.
I don’t know why this company promotes people like him (or her)!
He (or she) just sits around doing nothing while we do [...]

We are going through a transitional time where I work, as two organizations have merged to become one.  In my group in particular, the situation is a bit weird. My former boss, though he is no longer in a formal leadership position, is still there. My new boss has established her leadership team, and I [...]

I came across a great list to think about based on getting employees to trust you. Trust, says list author, Gregory P. Smith, CEO of Chart Your Course International, “is a key factor for effective leadership.” The problem, he goes on to explain, is that today, you can’t ask people to trust you and expect [...]

Pew Research shared some interesting information about the differences between men and women political leaders.
Here are a couple of salient facts from the research:

More men than women say they like working for a woman.
People give women high marks on leadership qualities such as those shown in the table below:

Despite these high rankings, a mere 6% [...]

A few posts back, I wrote about my new boss, asking the question, “Will she ever trust us?” Now I want to consider the opposite question, “Will we ever trust her?”
Recently, this boss coached me on an issue she was concerned about, and I was okay with that. That’s her job, right?  But then she [...]