When Leaders Ignore Trust Employees Play Games

These days business leaders are scrambling to figure out how to get their respective ships back on course. Good luck to them. Imagine not visiting a dentist for ten years and then the inevitable toothache happens. Years of neglect and decay can’t be fixed over night. The day of reckoning has come.

Let’s go back 25 years. What has changed?

My first post college job was in an office working for two men who defaulted into leadership by starting a company together. Neither had ever run a company before and certainly didn’t take…