http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Ryan+Scholz Leadership Ryan Scholz Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=710797&ca=Leadership A few days ago, I read an article about Southwest Airlines where the author claimed that the company’s values were to put employees first, customers second, and shareholders third. Wouldn’t it be great if making business decisions was this simple? In an attempt to show the importance of treating emp... Leadership Ryan Scholz Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=710800&ca=Leadership Our subconscious mind controls most of our actions. The conscious mind can only handle one to three events at a time and process 2000 bits of information per second, while the subconscious mind can handle thousands of events at one time and process four billion bits per second. Most accomplishment h... Leadership Ryan Scholz Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=682040&ca=Leadership Now do I have your attention? I’ve written on the subject of motivation and incentives in the past, but recently have come across some additional information and research that continues to challenge conventional business wisdom as it relates to use of monetary incentives to encourage higher performa... Leadership Ryan Scholz Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=682045&ca=Leadership I do not make New Year’s resolutions. I find that the process of deciding what I want to accomplish in the next year is much more intense than simply coming up with a few “like to do’s” for the coming year. Rather, at the end of each year, I evaluate my business and my life from the standpoint of go... Leadership Ryan Scholz Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=682048&ca=Leadership Most managers feel that a major part of their job is to motivate people who work for them. The problem that many have is distinguishing the difference between motivation and manipulation. Managers who attempt to motivate through manipulation will actually get worse results than those managers who si... Leadership Ryan Scholz Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=682054&ca=Leadership The worst assumption that managers can make about their area of responsibility is that they know everything that is going on in the department. In reality, they only know what their people want them to know or think they need to know. Managers who are approachable will find out about problems and is... Leadership Ryan Scholz Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=624865&ca=Leadership The term “groupthink” was first used by Irving Janus in 1972 when he was researching why teams made excellent decisions one time, yet made disastrous decisions another time. The two most famous and widely used examples of groupthink that led to disastrous outcomes are the Bay of Pigs invasion and th... Leadership Ryan Scholz Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=624868&ca=Leadership In the early 1970’s Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard developed one of the most popular and used leadership models which is called Situational Leadership. While I think a more appropriate name would have been situational management since it deals primarily with task execution, the model is still very re... Leadership Ryan Scholz Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=607005&ca=Leadership A key role and responsibility of any manager is to develop those people who report to them. Often, when developing subordinates through delegation or training activities, managers may fail to take into account that each person has different learning preferences. Answer each of these questions: When... Leadership Ryan Scholz Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=607010&ca=Leadership Bobby Cox, the manager of the Atlanta Braves baseball team, is retiring at the end of this season after 29 seasons as a manager. He is fourth on the all time list of wins by a manager. His teams in Atlanta won an unprecedented 14 straight division titles from 1991 to 2005. Even with all of his on fi...