Leadership Lessons from Flannery

This is what I learned how to do at work today:

• Advocate for doing the right thing


• Tell the truth without malace

I'll let you know how that turned out...

Leadership Lessons From Amanda: How To End Up Smelling Like A Rose

In another installment of Leadership Lessons from Amanda, we learn how to cover all our bases in order to squeeze out the competition. Let's watch...

Key leadership lessons within:

• Speak with confidence, yet maintain your temper when dealing with a full-frontal attack by a professional competitor.
• When your character or behavior is called into question, always point to your successful track record for achieving the organization's goals.
• Bring in a medical advisor or other expert to lend your position gravitas and to outnumber the enemy. Make sure this person is credible, yet totally in your pocket.
• No matter how hard it is, never take the bait. If someone is calling you names and impuning your character, you look much better if you ignore it and rise above it.
• It's always better to let the enemy self-distruct without submarining them yourself. You keep your hands clean that way.
• No matter what: Keep your cool.

Leadership Lessons From Amanda: How To Assert Your Authority

As a leader, sometimes it's important to show everyone who is boss. In order to do this, you must assert your authority appropriately. Let's watch the master...



Here are the key lessons we can take away from this demonstration:

• Fire people publically to assert your dominance
• Occaisionally, it is necessary to name-call in order to put people in their place
• In a one-on-one situation, physically dominating and cornering someone sends that person a message that you are in charge and mean business
• If you need to blow your stack, especially over a personal matter, make sure only to do it in front of one person, that way you can deny it ever happened later. Allison made the mistake of getting personal publically; that's why she is no longer in charge.
• Once you've had your say, bring everyone back to task; after all, you never want to keep clients waiting.