by Julie | Mar 27, 2019 | Abuse of Power, Articles, Leadership, powerless
“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them. … That’s all the powers of the President amount to.” Although this quotation is attributed to Harry Truman, any...
by Julie | Jan 2, 2019 | Abuse of Power, Articles, Leadership, Learning and Development, organizations
The ugly side of power was on full display in 2018. In fact, it was a banner year for the misuse and abuse of power. We witnessed a parade of powerful men resign or being fired over sexual abuse and misconduct. We saw the popularity of the “strong man autocrat”...
by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Articles, Hero, Identity, Leadership, Learning and Development, over work
A few years ago, I worked with an extremely intelligent CEO named Robert (not his real name). Robert had just taken over the reins of a startup, and under his guidance, the company doubled its revenue and added over 35 new positions. In that year, Robert changed, too....
by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Abuse of Power, Articles, Change, Learning and Development, Uncategorized
I recently blogged about the Recode/Decode interview between Kara Fisher and Frances Frei about changing the culture at Uber (it’s a great podcast episode, by the way). One thing that impressed me was Frei’s reluctance to embrace a zero-tolerance policy towards...
by Julie | Oct 7, 2017 | Abuse of Power, Articles, fraud, Leadership, organizations
2017 is not yet over, but is on track to go down as one of the most natural disaster laden years on record. But there have been some spectacular man-made disasters as well, especially scandals relating to abuse of power. Here’s just a few of the headlines of this...
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