According to Niccolo Machiavelli, it is much safer to be feared than loved. Around the year 1512, Machiavelli was imprisoned for allegedly conspiring against the new ruler, Lorenzo de Medici. To win his favor, he wrote a book, The Prince, outlining the best ways to...
What is self-management strategy? One of the main problems that Derek Alexander encountered in the new TIGERS® Success Series book on leadership, Becoming TIGERS – Leading Your Team to Success, is how to properly manage his employees. Half the time he found himself...
Leadership skills are skills inherent in the animal kingdom. Animals exhibit excellent governance aptitude. We kid you not. For instance, those that travel in groups are found to depend on interactions among its members when making migratory decisions. They do so by...
In the upcoming book, Becoming TIGERS – Leading Your Team to Success, our protagonist, Derek, struggles to create high employee engagement. Not only does he fail to improve engagement, he is the cause for several employees to quit. The result is a final warning...
Self-talk. What is it? Self-talk are the messages we tell ourselves that build ourselves up or tear ourselves down. What we say to ourselves impacts our personal and professional development in so many ways. One could argue that every one of us tells ourselves a...
Empathy for leaders like Derek Alexander, the protagonist in our soon-to-be-released book, is hit or miss. Perhaps you know someone like Derek. Perhaps you worked for someone like Derek in the past – maybe even now. Like Derek, many people who excel in their jobs, and...
