![]() Travis Bradberry is the award-winning author of the best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence 2.0. Without further ado, here are the 17 best columnists we found on the internet: 1. And it appears many others have as well, since each writer's articles consistently get thousands upon thousands of shares. I've personally learned a LOT from all of these columnists. So we did some digging to find the 17 best business writers online at major publications. The trick is finding out who these people are. And many of these people write featured columns for some of the largest online business publications, such as: On the contrary, there are some incredibly knowledgeable people online. Clickbait headlines that over promise and under deliver. ![]() Contact Steve, follow him on Facebook, or connect on LinkedIn. He's managing partner of Invisor Consulting, a management consulting and business strategy firm. Steve Tobak is a consultant and former high-tech senior executive. Also leads to passive aggressive behavior where the exec in charge agrees to kill it but never actually does. In other words, it continues to be funded long after it shouldn't. Sacred Cow - A pet project - usually owned by a founder - that's immune to criticism and the company's standard processes. Often the result of being denigrated by a dysfunctional and divisive CEO. Silo Mentality - When teams, departments or entire divisions act as if they're independent from the rest of the company, usually in a defensive "it's us against them" sort of way when fighting for resources. Besides being divisive, that also creates "walk on water" behavior where exalted groups aren't subject to standard processes like budgeting, for example. When leaders either consciously or subconsciously hoist certain groups up on pedestals while denigrating others. Often the result of hallway or ad-hoc meetings in obscure places and making decisions in the absence of those who are actually responsible for that sort of thing.Īnalysis Paralysis - When executives, especially from warring factions, chronically debate issues to death, going down one rat hole or knock-down, drag-out fight after another without actually making decisions because there's no clear leadership to drive consensus. Strategy Du Jour - When dysfunctional executives consistently overreact to a single data point and take the entire organization in a new direction. It's dysfunctional, it's divisive and it fosters rivalry instead of alignment. There's nothing natural or inevitable about it. Warring Factions - You hear it all the time: "There's a natural tension between sales and marketing" or "Come on, everybody hates HR," like it's an inevitable feud between warring factions. On the contrary, I knew one executive VP who insisted on sitting in a cubicle with his people. Ivory Tower Effect - When self-important executives make decisions in a vacuum or otherwise barricade themselves in their expansive corner offices, that creates a nasty cultural divide between management and employees. Since we can't really solve a problem without identifying it first, here are seven signs of a dysfunctional company with polarizing leadership: While companies may not have political parties to deal with, polarizing leadership and divisive management are real and entirely common issues that destroy organizational effectiveness and ultimately lead to operating failure in companies big and small. On the flip side, I've known good executives who were well liked but, nevertheless, couldn't get everyone moving in the same direction. They united people and accomplished great things. But when it comes to the corporate world, that's not entirely practical because, well, it's often hard to tell the losers from the keepers.įor example, I've worked with micromanaging control-freak jerks who were remarkably effective leaders. Just label the incumbent a big fat loser, vote the bum out of office and call it a day. Now, it's tempting to paint all ineffective leaders with the same brush. Clearly, that's not happening in Washington and that's why America's so divided. That's because, by definition, leadership is about somehow getting people with disparate views to coalesce and execute on goals and plans they would never agree to on their own. If Obama and Bush were effective leaders, the nation wouldn't be so divided. Some think there's a chicken and egg aspect to the question of which came first, our divisive leaders or our divided nation, but I think Bush are the most polarizing presidents of the past 50 years, meaning they had the largest gap in approval ratings between democrats and republicans. I was just reading about how Barack Obama and George W.
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