http://www.scottneilson.com Mr. Neilson reclaims the Lost Art of Leadership by defining the fundamental elements of Earning Followership. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:53:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is just to let you know that I will not be putting any new posts on the blog in August.  I am making some exciting additions and changes to the blog in response to some of your suggestions.  I hope to have them completed by September.  For those of you "above the line", ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=444 As promised, this week’s post is a follow-up from last week’s post about using inclusion as a means of broadening “your” leadership skill set.  In that post I stated that by drawing on the knowledge of their team members leaders can understand all aspects of the problems they are facing, ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=441 I think it is fair to say that all leaders have a limited set of skills for doing business and leading an organization.  The skills they generally possess are those that they have relied upon and been successful with throughout their careers.  As with any other such asset, they have come ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=436 Thank you, Amy, for submitting this piece.  It is a wild one. Have a look at this article.  It is long, but I have captured some excerpts below and made some comments.  I would be very interested in reading yours. The link is: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128362511&sc=nl&cc=es-20100711 Employee performance reviews should be eliminated, according to UCLA business professor ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=432 Who is better at leading a technically oriented business; a person trained in a related technical area or a person trained in business?  The raging debate continues.  Which do you think is best and why? In my industry, drug development services (the D side of R&D), there seems to be a ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=428 A critical aspect of leading a business is clarity; clarity of direction, clarity of roles and responsibilities, and clarity of processes.  People need that.  They need to know exactly what is expected of them in their jobs, and what they must do and how.  Their training is derived from it.  ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=419 Great challenge for a leader...How do you handle dissention in the ranks? Certainly, it depends upon the situation and how far the "disease" has spread.  In this type of situation, one problem we have, as the public, is that we do not know all the facts, and never will...so we can ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=409 "Be mindful of the responsibility you have to those you serve, but be more mindful of the responsibility you have to those who serve you." In other words, it is critically important to take care of your employees, perhaps more so than it is for you to take care of your customers.  To a ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=369 A short time back I was talking with a friend who was having trouble with several aspects of his pharmaceutical regulatory consulting business.  He was not getting the performance he wanted from his employees and they were demotivated.    He was not making the profits that he should and he was ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=397 Here are a few more thoughts on the subject of giving feedback... A constant flow of information about how people are performing will keep their performance as close to on target as possible, as we pointed out in the last post.  Waiting to give feedback allows performance to stray until such ... http://www.scottneilson.com/?p=391