by D2Lead | Aug 14, 2020 | Comfluential Leadership
In the past 50 years, many changes have occurred to shape the workplace into what it is today. The civil rights movements of the ’60s and ’70s transformed voting rights and salary laws in the workplace, but those weren’t the only changes. Women entered the workforce...
by D2Lead | Aug 12, 2020 | Comfluential Leadership
As a leader, you rely on your team to take the necessary actions to move your projects forward, don’t you? So how do you motivate them to take action? Here are some ways NOT to do it: One of the most common methods of influence is to use money as a motivator. While...
by D2Lead | Aug 10, 2020 | Comfluential Leadership
When you think of a leader, what image comes to mind? Do you see a man in a suit giving orders in a boardroom? Do you imagine the manager who is constantly barking orders at their employees? If so, you’re not alone. This leadership model is the most common, and it is...
by D2Lead | May 28, 2020 | Comfluential Leadership
Cami Anderson begins her excellent Forbes article like this: “By the end of February, leaders across the globe were looking at the same facts: An invisible and dangerous enemy was fast approaching. COVID-19 was highly contagious, unpredictable, and deadly, even with...
by D2Lead | Mar 26, 2020 | Comfluential Leadership, Lessons in Leadership
You can’t hide from it. “The only constant in life is change,” said Heraclitus (although death and taxes were added later). In fact, change is moving at an even faster rate in the digital age. When I entered college as a freshman back in the sixties, we were given a...
by D2Lead | Feb 12, 2020 | Comfluential Leadership, Lessons in Leadership
I came out of the military – just like those before me and since – schooled in command based on the masculine model of leadership designed for warfare. When you’re training for life-and-death, in the trenches, on the battlefield types of situations, there is clearly...