How to prevent fear from controlling your decisions (opens in new tab)

In today’s business climate, you need to be quick and efficient to keep pace with the competition. The following mandates are commonplace: Do more with less, get results faster, reduce headcount, and leverage artificial intelligence. These mandates have a downside, however: They can breed impatience and fear-driven leadership in the workplace. This can cause leaders to write people off prematurely. They’ll label colleagues as lost causes and disengage from them, often at great cost to relatio...