For companies to make great decisions management must have the proper tools to make those decisions. As practitioners, we need to figure out how to enhance our decision making process. In these series of blogs. I explore the use of Evidence-Based Management as a tool to help us make decisions. The first blog describes what Evidence-Based Management is, the second and third blogs step through an example of the evidence-based search process, and the fourth provides an example

How do we use Evidence-Based Management? Or how can it help the organization solve a problem? Integrating a positive sense of power. The Search... For today, let’s take just part of the question to reduce the complexity of the task. What is positive power? For this partial question, we will log on to the library, whichever we have access to, and search for “positive power” and “positive aspects of power”. What do we find? We find multiple articles on power and we read all t

Are you an Authentic Leader? The next part to research for the proposed question is what factors of leadership and power are positive? Leadership is a vast body of literature, so let’s focus on the characteristics we find when conducting a search with positive “leadership and power” together, rather than defining leadership per se. It is important to be definitive in this search otherwise the amount of information would be too great to organize. We conduct this search for pos