the capacity to establish direction and to influence and align others toward a common goal, motivating and committing them to action and making them responsible...
Caterpillar builds multi-terrain loaders, hydraulic excavators, and other heavy equipment. They also teach their managers to nurture direct reports. While this may conjure up visions of awkward team-building exercises, or courses on developing interpersonal skills, Caterpillar's goal is very pragmatic. According to an article from Workforce Management, they do it...
There are currently 73 million online gamers worldwide, spending an average of 22 hours a week playing. Wasting time? Not according to new research by IBM and Seriosity, which asserts that there's more than just entertainment to be found in massively multiplayer online role-playing games MMORPG like World of Warcraft....
Instead of trying to change how you feel when you think you're just spinning your wheels at work, you may want to change how you're working. In a recent interview, Timothy Butler, author of Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths, had this to say. "We...