Geoff Smart is the #1 thought leader on the #1 topic in business. He is the Chairman & Founder of ghSMART, a leadership consulting firm, and his purpose is to help leaders amplify their positive impact on the world.
Leaders struggle to hold people accountable. According to our research for Power Score, we discovered that only 8% of leaders are good at holding people accountable.
Why do so many leaders struggle to hold people accountable?
Because when you do it wrong, it stinks for everyone. Tension, stress, and hurt feelings, bad results, and a culture of defensiveness rather than a culture of performance and personal growth. [Continue »]
Most leaders struggle to prioritize.
In the research we did for Power Score, which included 9 million data points on successful and unsuccessful careers, we discovered that only 24% of leaders are rated as good at prioritizing.
No wonder so many employees are confused!
No wonder so much money gets wasted on things that don’t matter!
No wonder people feel so stressed out—and feel like they are juggling too many balls at once.
Here is another important finding. So the trick to becoming good at prioritizing is to figure out how to narrow down the number of priorities to the two or three that matter most. [Continue »]
The title should say “with whom one works.”
But “who you work with” is how people actually talk. And I want this article to be easy and useful to read.
At ghSMART, we use a lot of data in our consulting work. And to discover valuable insights for our books, we analyze large datasets of successful and unsuccessful careers. These datasets take decades of work, and tens of millions of dollars, to collect and analyze.
So what I’m about to do is a departure from our normal way of giving advice. It is somewhat of a guilty pleasure to not have the data, nor the answer.
But we have an extremely interesting question for you to ponder, as you think about your own job happiness. [Continue »]
