The internet floods us with lists: Five Reasons to Buy the iPhone Three Leadership Lessons You Can Learn from the Avengers Ten Productivity Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for Entrepreneurs Topics churn through tweets, posts, and links and then cycle through again. It’s obvious these lists are effective and popular, but why? Leaders and managers are …

Being a leader in the workplace is not for the faint of heart. It often involves making critical decisions while under pressure; choosing the right path, which is rarely the simple path; and managing the business’s most important and complicated resource: people. We have the not-so-small responsibility to inspire others—to help them see beyond themselves …