How Leaders Overestimate Their Own Skills and Mindsets
Leadership is not just about titles or positions. It is about cultivating essential skills and mindsets to inspire, motivate, and empower employees towards success.
Leadership is not just about titles or positions. It is about cultivating essential skills and mindsets to inspire, motivate, and empower employees towards success.
The first job board was launched in the early 1990’s with the advent of the internet and its wide-spread adoption. The idea was to provide a place where employers would list their vacancies and then prospects would apply and try to fill them.
Employees are changing. One of the biggest struggles for today’s leaders is finding and engaging talent in a new world of work where people have changed values, preferences, and priorities.
A lot has been said about Satya Nadella’s turnaround of Microsoft, transforming it from a company many people viewed as outdated to one of the most valuable companies in the world with a strong culture.
Listening and communication are perhaps two of the most timeless leadership skills yet they are also the ones that are changing the most! In my new book, The Future Leader, I talk about these two as the skill of the Translator.
The workplace has dramatically evolved, shifting from office smoking and nine-to-five schedules to work-life integration. In today’s competitive job market, organizations must prove their worth to potential employees who scrutinize company culture, technology, and leadership.
As we progress into 2023, organizations are seeking ways to attract, retain, and engage their employees in an uncertain and turbulent world. While focusing on employee experience is easy when everything is going well, it is more challenging and crucial when it’s not.
Dating back thousands of years, conformity is wired into us genetically. Back then, conformity was essential to survival—if you didn’t fit in, you were likely killed.
For many years I had a podcast called Leading The Future of Work With Jacob Morgan. I’ve recorded over 760 episodes with some of the world’s top leaders, thinkers and authors including: Seth Godin, Yuval Harari, Dan Pink, Marshall Goldsmith, Ray Dalio, and CEOs from organizations like Best Buy, Accor Hotels, Siemens, Honeywell, Netflix, and countless others.
I remember one of the first paid talks I gave around 15 years ago. I was in my early 20’s standing in front of a room of business leaders. I was excited…until I walked onto the stage. Then the imposter thoughts started to pop in.