Mark Cuban: A lesson on the dangers of absentee leadership

A CEO's advice on how to earn employee respect | Probabilistic thinking comes with pitfalls | Agile principles can increase the ROI of marketing efforts Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( September 21, 2018 CONNECT WITH SMARTBRIEF  [LinkedIn]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Google+]( [SmartBrief on Leadership]( [SmartBrief on Leadership]( Innovative Ideas. Ahead of the Curve. [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [FORWARD]( [] Leading Edge [] [A CEO's advice on how to earn employee respect]( Teams value CEOs who make brave shifts in strategy and focus on developing team members, writes Cheryl Bachelder, former CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen. Employees also want clear statements about your principles and values, as well as seeing how you live those even when pressured to act otherwise, she writes. [SmartBrief/Leadership]( (9/20) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] [Probabilistic thinking comes with pitfalls]( Probability isn't a one-time decision, and an important and difficult-to-learn skill is being able to incorporate and properly weigh new information into our probabilities, writes Shane Parrish. "A high probability of something being true is not the same as saying it is true," he cautions. [Farnam Street]( (9/18) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] Strategic Management [] [Agile principles can increase the ROI of marketing efforts]( Your marketing team will deliver more value if they practice agile practices, such as experiencing your market as a customer, prioritizing projects with the greatest potential impact and knowing which performance metrics to analyze, writes Brian Ricci. "Data mining should be a very active exercise in which marketers are aggressively searching for improvement opportunities," he writes. [Chief Outsiders]( (9/17) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] Smarter Communication [] [Productive conversations have clear frameworks]( Important conversations have a lot of variables to keep tabs on, and one action that can help is creating a framework, writes David Hiatt. "[T]he conversation should have an agreed upon purpose, confirmation of the time allotted, agreed upon agendas and expectations of people engaged in the conversation, and a goal or outcome at the end of the conversation," he writes. [Great Leadership]( (9/20) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] Smarter Living Get your mind and body right each Friday [] [How to keep negative people from bringing you down]( It's easier to deal with a negative person when you don't take their comments personally or, in some cases, try to respond with humor, writes Dr. Kristen Fuller. "You may want to ask yourself, what is happening in this person's life that is making them behave this way?" she writes. [Psychology Today]( (9/13) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] In Their Own Words [] [Mark Cuban: A lesson on the dangers of absentee leadership]( Mark Cuban: A lesson on the dangers of absentee leadership Cuban (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban admits he didn't spend enough time monitoring the business offices and put too much trust in the team's former CEO, who committed assaults and created an office environment where sexual harassment and other inappropriate behaviors were tolerated. "There's no way to downplay it, and if someone showed me this from another company and asked me to read it, I would say you can't make a bigger mistake, because that destroys the whole culture of your organization," Cuban says. [ESPN]( (9/19) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] Daily Diversion [] [When people gathered around the VCR to play a board game]( VHS and board games joined forces in the mid-1980s as a sort of precursor to interactive video games, writes Ernie Smith. "It's clear in retrospect but probably was less clear back then that the VCR board game was a half-solution, an attempt by people excited about technology to move things forward," he writes. [Tedium]( (9/13) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [] [] What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie, writer [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Google+]( [Email]( [Sign Up]( [SmartBrief offers 200+ newsletters]( [Advertise]( [Learn more about the SmartBrief audience]( Subscriber Tools: [Manage Subscriptions]( [Update Your Profile]( [Unsubscribe]( [Send Feedback]( [Archive]( [Search]( Contact Us: Jobs Contact - jobhelp@smartbrief.com Advertising - [Laura Engel](mailto:lengel@smartbrief.com) Editor - [James daSilva](mailto:leadership@smartbrief.com) Mailing Address: SmartBrief, Inc.®, 555 11th ST NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004 © 1999-2018 SmartBrief, Inc.® [Privacy Policy (updated May 25, 2018)]( | [Legal Information]( Â