Karl Edwards's Page

Hearing stories of abusive corporate behavior infuriates me. Denying benefits after the fact. Groundless layoffs of older employees. Choosing business models that depend on substandard wages, and then blaming the employees for breaking the business when they request a living wage. The world has no shortage of assholes in power who justify their destructive and inhuman decisions with short term, unverifiable claims to benefit the bottom-line.… Continue

Let’s say you rewrote your job description to include a responsibility to help your key players reach their professional goals whether or not those goals involved staying in your employ. What a great leader you’d be, right?! You wouldn’t know what to do with all the loyalty and energy and dedication that would result. BUT... And this is a big but. It’s not really safe to tell you my professional aspirations, is it?… Continue

The solution is a tension. When it comes to influencing others, there are no shortcuts. If you were hoping for tips on how to manipulate people into doing much more for much less and then thanking you for the privilege, you’ll probably be disappointed with our current podcast series on Influencing Others. Come visit and listen in.

Responsibility is a reflection of freedom, not control. Any obliging of oneself is responsible to the extent that it is an act of freedom. If coerced, forced or manipulated, the responsibility shifts to the controlling party. Leaders mistakenly believe that they can delegate responsibility without granting the freedom to choose. “Do this and do it in this way.” Some even wonder why their assignment is not greeted with more...… Continue

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