Do Not Leave Decisions to Chance

One of your biggest jobs as a leader is to make decisions. Yes, sometimes it’s hard, and yes, sometimes people do not like you very much afterwards, but that is what you get paid to do. If you try to pass that off, you are not doing your job. It is as simple as that. […]

Read More

Write Down Those Objectives

Office meeting

We can all recognize the importance of having objectives for your employees. It helps them understand their job, it allows them to know what your expectations are, and it gives you some criteria for measuring their performance. Of course, they are only useful if you all remember what they are. We are not just talking […]

Read More

Look for Inspiration in Unlikely Places

Your employees are more likely to be creative, energetic and innovative when they have some sort of inspiration. Maybe something to get them into the right frame of mind, maybe something to spark some specific ideas about visuals or textures or sound, inspiration can be a starting point, or a nudge in a particular direction. […]

Read More

Down for the Day

Today is a public holiday in Thailand, and even though the Designing Leaders crew operates across multiple countries where it ISN’T a holiday, we are taking this one. See you Monday!!

Read More

1.21 Gigawatts? Great Scott!!

Online learning

So, we are just going to ask the question that everyone on Facebook is asking today: where is my floating car? Today is the day that Marty McFly is supposed to appear in a time machine, powered by 1.21 gigawatts running through a flux capacitor, and we still do not have hoverboards and floating cars […]

Read More