Bankable Leadership: Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver Both

“If I relentlessly drive my team to achieve our goals, they won’t like me.”

“If I try to make everybody on the team happy, we won’t hit our numbers.”

As a leader, you’ve likely felt this fundamental tension—the tension between driving results and developing positive relationships with your people. Despite all the research telling us that effective leaders do both, most of us struggle to balance the happiness of our teams and the health of the bottom line. We are more comfortable focusing on o...