Jun 11, 2025
If you find yourself “reluctantly staying,” take ten minutes to reconnect with the purpose in your role: list two concrete ways your leadership improves employees’ day-to-day work and one quick action you can take this week to amplify that impact. Leaders who restore...
Jun 11, 2025
When subordinates experience your authority as a source of potential gains rather than penalties, they judge you as benevolent and respond with more exploratory ideas and risk-taking. This effect is especially strong for staff who are sensitive to hierarchy.
Jun 11, 2025
Base your authority on expertise and voluntary followership rather than intimidation. Share know-how, credit others publicly, and frame requests around how the whole team benefits. Research shows that this “prestige” style signals strong moral character, tightens...
Apr 25, 2024
To lead or to be liked? Michigan Ross Professor Charleen Case and colleagues uncovered that leaders who are worried about prestige and how others perceive them often make bad decisions at the expense of the group. Experiment with divorcing your own feelings and ego...
Apr 25, 2024
Being humble is contagious! Research confirms that team members emulate leaders who show humility, which can enable the team to perform at its highest potential. One way to show humility is by asking for help. Take time this week to experiment with asking for help...
Apr 25, 2024
Want to be seen as more charismatic and leader-like? Make sure you are looking into the eyes of the people with whom you’re speaking. Research shows that the frequency and duration of eye contact leads leaders to be seen as more charismatic and...