Reader: I’m a man in my 50s supervising a handful of excellent subordinates, several of them young women. Occasionally, I need to attend in-person meetings within driving distance with one of them.

Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar, Leadership Spiritual Behaviors Toward Subordinates: An Empirical Examination of the Effects of a Leader's Individual Spirituality and Organizational Spirituality, Journal ...

By obtaining in-depth case histories of problem subordinates and interviewing executives on their innermost feelings about these subordinates, the author found that the most pervasive and problematic ...

They check in with subordinates on an ad-hoc basis and hear about “what’s going on” and “how busy things are.” The assumptions are wrong, and ad-hoc conversations won’t cut it.

A prominent and well-respected leader once said to me, “I am furious about how this project has turned out. It is my own fault. I should have visited the site every other week to give them ...

By Roger Bauer – Sep 17, 2007UpdatedSep 13, 2007, 2:05pm EDT ...