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9 Barriers to Effective Communication

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In this short post, the Lazy Leader identifies 9 barriers to effective communication that may—if not addressed—contribute to the failure of business change projects.

May 18, 2021

Why Making Mistakes at Work Is Good for Business

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Making mistakes is good for business. Yet, some business leaders think mistakes are a bad thing.

May 16, 2021

10 Signs of Micromanagement—Strategies for Dealing With Micromanagers

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Understand why micro-managers are bad news for business and bad news for employees, and learn how to handle them.

May 16, 2021

The Art of Strategy—A Rough Guide to Leadership Models and Theories

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In this post, we learn that the Art of Strategy provides us with a template—model of leadership—for life experiences and dealing with conflict.

May 16, 2021

The Lazy Leader's Guide to Problem-Solving

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In this guide, I show you how to solve problems and introduce a simple 5-step approach to problem-solving that will help solve complicated business problems.

May 14, 2021

Give Me a Few Minutes, and I’ll Make You a Better Project Manager

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Project management can be tough. But, it's not just about managing tasks. If you want to be a better project manager, it is time to focus on relationships.

May 13, 2021

The Lazy Leader's Guide to Setting Priorities for Living

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Setting priorities reminds us of what we hold most dear and helps us get back on track when things go awry.

May 12, 2021

The Lazy Leaders Guide to Leadership

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It’s a point of debate whether Bill Gates said, “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” No matter who we attribute to this quote, it's interesting to understand the meaning behind the apparent counter-intuitive adroitness of the lazy person.

May 10, 2021

What Motivates People At Work: 4 Actionable Factors

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In this post by Daniel Lock, we explore motivation and examine Lou Gerstner's success in turning around a failing IBM in the early 1990s.

May 9, 2021

9 Psychology Tips to Motivate Underperforming Employees

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In this post, Daniela McVicker takes a look at how psychology can be used to get inside the head of the underperformer and figure out what makes them tick.

May 7, 2021

Goal Setting Made Simple—How to Fulfil Your Ambition

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Everyone needs a goal. If you want to know how your life is going to turn out, you need to know where you’re heading. Goal setting is crucial.

May 5, 2021

Why Self-Reflection Is the Key to Effective Leadership

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Learn why self-refection is fundamental to effective leadership. To expand our leadership skills, we must know our strengths and weaknesses, and how we influence others.

May 3, 2021

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Leadership Skills

In today’s uncertain times, organizations must utilize all of their assets—know-how, technology, and people—to survive. As a leader, you have a great opportunity to champion inside your organization. But what do you need to do to influence people and change?

Leading Change

Leading in a culture of change is less about following process steps and far more about understanding and insight. Do you have the confidence and capability to take risks and navigate your team through change?

Personal Learning

Connect with our community to tap into a broad wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise, and learn how to set yourself effective personal goals and find the motivation you need to achieve them. Are you ready to reach your full potential?

Project Management

We all want to be a project manager, right? But what does being a project manager mean, and how can we strengthen our project management skills to successfully engage others, enthusiastically plan and control tasks, and identify and manage risk?

Leadership Teams

We all manage teams, yes? And how often is poor performance at the root of those issues that give us so much grief? So, what do we need to do to create and sustain high-performance teams?

Strategy Tools

The essential and the most popular business strategy tools for anyone who has to work with people. The Lazy Leader offers well-researched and well-explained strategy tools that are easy to understand. Do you want to improve yourself? Or do you want to understand and improve others?

Models and Theories

Because there are so many models and frameworks of leadership, it can get a little confusing. So, the Lazy Leader offers members the Rough Guide to Leadership Models. In this series, we present various leadership models clearly and concisely, so you may reflect on what they have to offer you.

How to Guides

Our how-to guides will help you and challenge you. Our topics include personal learning, self-reflection, managing teams and leading change, and are always brief and straight to the point. So let us help you solve problems!

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