Leadership

Oct 10, 2025

Why Employers Should Rethink Generational Stereotypes in the Workplace

Leadership professor Tom Zagenczyk explains why generational stereotypes lack evidence and how treating employees as individuals leads to healthier workplaces.

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Aug 14, 2025

How To Be a Better Follower

How can workers get leaders to empower them more? Poole scholar Brad Kirkman finds that it's all about your voice.

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Jul 28, 2025

Employees Who Spot Problems Help the Bottom Line, So Why Do Leaders Give More Power to Bootlickers?

New studies find leaders are less likely to empower followers who raise concerns in the workplace, even though those employees play a critical role in improving performance.

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May 23, 2025

Managing Massive Change As Tariffs Shift

Poole College scholar Brad Kirkman outlines four qualities for resilient teams, leaders and organizations.

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Jan 22, 2025

First Impressions and Founders: Context Counts

The key to a good first impression? It may be the audience you're trying to impress, Poole entrepreneurship scholars found.

Aug 1, 2023

Trust Culture in the Workplace: Roger Mayer Explores What It Actually Means

Poole College professor of leadership, Roger Mayer, explores how organizations can foster more trust amongst employees and executives in the workplace.

Feb 14, 2023

In His New Book, “Unbreakable,” Brad Kirkman Shares the Keys to Building Resilient Teams

In his latest book, Brad Kirkman, provides insight into the importance of building resilient teams.

Jun 6, 2022

Poole Podcast Season 2, Episode 5: Leadership in a Post-COVID World

Bradley Kirkman and Donald Thompson discuss the future of work through the lens of emotional intelligence, generational differences in leadership, and diversity in the C-suite.

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Apr 4, 2022

Study Finds Empowering Workers Can Backfire

If institutional obstacles make it difficult for workers to thrive, empowering them can lead to unethical behavior.

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Oct 13, 2021

Why Some Business Leaders Oppose Empowering Workers – And Why They Should Do It Anyway

How (and why) business leaders should be doing more to support their workers.