by Constance | Aug 19, 2020 | Leadership
How Leaders Can Interrupt The Confirmation Bias When a leader is vague, says one thing and does another, or shows little empathy for his or her team, people lose trust. At first, it might not be obvious that we should withdraw trust. We may be wary, but not convinced...
by Constance | Dec 20, 2018 | Don't Get Me Started
Verizon, parent company of Oath, announced that 10,400 employees are accepting a separation package at a total cost of over $1B. They will write-down the value of Oath by $4.6B as part of a re-organization. Using fluent, but vacuous, business-speak, the Verizon chief...
by Constance | Sep 27, 2018 | Get on Board
Gender Window Dressing Doesn’t Work – For CBS or Anyone Else In the wake of Leslie Moonves’ departure from CBS, the company has added three women to its board. When issues of harassment at Uber came to light, Arianna Huffington was promptly added to the board....
by Constance | Jul 16, 2018 | Leadership
Dr. Clarence “Dick” Holland was my professor at Georgia State University (GSU), where he taught statistics in the department of psychology. Last week, he died at the age of 85. The news of his death hit me like a ton of bricks. The strength of my reaction was...
by Constance | Jun 7, 2018 | It's Not What You Think
The caricature of executives depicts them as heartless; people who fire others without a second thought. The reality is a far cry from this. Especially with unemployment at historic lows, leaders are acutely aware that talented people who are a good fit are not only...
