What’s the Best Leadership Style? The right leadership in any given situation is determined not by the leader’s capabilities but the follower’s needs.
Spoiler Alert: There’s no such thing as a single best leadership style that’s appropriate in every situation.
In fact, to be a great leader, you need to be able to do the opposite: vary your style depending upon the particular person, issue being addressed and/or situation. And you can’t be either a leader or a manager in every situation and succeed. From this perspective, too, you have to be able to vary your modality appropriately.
Innovative Work Cultures Know the Difference Between âLeaderâ and âManagerâ
Managers and leaders can be one and the same, but not every manager is equipped with the leadership skills that help fuel a high-purpose company culture.
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âA leader without followers is just someone out for a walk.â
Various versions of this saying, often attributed to author John C. Maxwell, are frequently used to encourage people in power to focus on inspiring others. But if you listen within many companies today, you may get the sense that a lot of them have forgotten â or never learned â the lesson in the adage.
Groundbreaking Culture Study on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Energy Launched
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ALLY Energy and Gapingvoid Culture Design Group launch the first digital, global ethnographic study to capture stories to measure culture. Understanding how people in energy work, live, and relate to others is an essential part of moving the energy transition forward and we re thrilled to team up with Gapingvoid to do this important work, - Katie Mehnert, CEO of ALLY Energy. HOUSTON (PRWEB) March 10, 2021 ALLY Energy and Gapingvoid Culture Design Group have teamed up to launch a groundbreaking approach to understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in energy. Through a digital, global ethnographic study, thousands of stories from around the world will be captured in an effort to better understand diverse people’s real-life experiences.
Out of Office
John Seabrook’s piece about the post-pandemic future of the office covered a number of important topics related to working from home (“Office Space,” February 1st). Two other factors are worth considering. First, remote working pushes the costs of maintaining office space onto employees. Some companies do offer stipends for office technology and at-home setups, like chairs and Wi-Fi, but many employees end up shouldering the majority of these costs. We must ask who benefits from the ostensible savings represented by home offices. For many employees especially parents working at home is much harder and sometimes more costly than working in an office. The second factor involves office dynamics: with people at home, there are likely fewer opportunities for sexual harassment and other detrimental encounters between colleagues, and any attacks can be recorded. Although working from home could be less safe for those facing domestic violence, many employees may find tha