Organizational Misbehavior

Organizational Misbehavior, August 2009

Are you grooming or stifling tomorrow’s leaders?

With the national economy stumbling along like a wounded animal, the only steady growth these days is in the number of workers being shown the door. But while layoffs can be demoralizing, those workers who remain on the job may find “the Great Recession” to be a huge career booster.

Greg Harris, president of Quantum Workplace, an Omaha-based company that measures employee engagement, loyalty and retention for about 4,000 U.S. companies each year, says drastic personnel cuts have given workers who survive the axe a historic opportunity to display “upward leadership,” or the ability to influence their boss’s decision making. [click title to continue reading]

Rich Ehisen

Rich Ehisen has been a reporter and editor for almost 30 years, and is currently the editor in chief at Capitol Weekly, which covers the California State Capitol in Sacramento. For two decades previous he was the managing editor of the State Net Capitol Journal, a LexisNexis publication that covers state public policy issues and trends nationwide. In that role he was also the producer and host of the SNCJ Deep Dive podcast and the SNCJ Hot Issues webinar series. He is also the producer and moderator of The Open Mic: Writers in Their Own Words, a podcast and YouTube show that features his discussions on writing with crime fiction, mystery and thriller authors.