How to develop a flexible leadership style
Feeling adrift in a business world where uncertainty is the norm? Where complex problems bubble up quickly and defy conventional leadership thinking? Where, as...
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Feeling adrift in a business world where uncertainty is the norm? Where complex problems bubble up quickly and defy conventional leadership thinking? Where, as...
In all of the work I’ve done in management development over the last 20-plus years, if I had to pick the one thing that...
Talent development is a perennial issue for CEOs, but this year, it’s more prominent than ever. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2013 Global CEO Survey, the...
Do you want to be able to influence others better? Want to make your sales quota? Want to motivate your team? Try practicing empathy....
Do you trust the people who report to you? That question is not just about right versus wrong. It’s also about competence versus incompetence....
Wise leaders look at what an employee can do rather than what he cannot do. The lesson for leaders who evaluate people — that...
Do your employees stop talking and look uncomfortable when you walk into the coffee room? Does everyone but you go out for drinks after...
Meetings in many organizations have unhealthy hidden agendas, unhealthy conflict and competition, and a rush to action without appropriate dialog. It’s every person for...
Succeeding in spite of resistance is a traditional problem of leadership. A leader ought to welcome resistance and work with it. A successful leader...
Have some tough news to deliver? Use a one-two approach: affirm their value, then critique their performance. Too often managers open with the tough...
In the effort of achieving perfection, every leader faces a temptation to project a persona rather than be themselves. They think that in order...
Have you ever been frustrated by name-calling, finger-pointing and the blame game? Or watched how harsh judgments can divide people, divide organizations and result...
It was every CEO’s worst nightmare. Seven customers died in 1982 after taking the company’s most popular and profitable product. Instead of getting relief...
Picture this: You’re at a conference, waiting to hear a speaker whose talk you’ve been looking forward to for months. As you sit down,...
The following responses are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council, an invitation-only organization composed of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a...
How unfortunate that our popular ideas of what a good leader should be are so often grandiose. Through current media, television and movies, we...
When I first heard about 360-degree feedback, it reminded me of those horrible slam books from middle school. The ones that kids taunt one...
We are entering the time of commencement speeches. Some may go viral while others will evaporate as soon as the words are spoken. It...
The following answers and images are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite-only organization composed of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC...
Attribution: Map by Hal Jespersen, http://www.posix.com/CW (via Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license) One hundred and fifty years ago this summer, the Battle of...
Can a manager be an effective coach? Some (often, professional coaches) say that they can’t and shouldn’t, because they have too much of a...
The Denver Post recently announced the results of its second annual Top Workplaces program. The rankings are based on over 32,000 employee surveys from...
Companies need control to make sure they are efficient, compliant and even predictable, but it’s easy to go too far. Coping with a tough...
“Tell me why you never talked to Josh about the problems with his job performance.” “I didn’t want to hurt his feelings.” This dialogue...
Is your organization doing a good job of developing its leadership pipeline? Leadership-development opportunities start with entry-level supervision roles, and a recent study suggests...
Techniques fiction writers employ to develop characters can provide insight into how managers develop their employees. Learn the secret that one novelist, Ellis Avery,...
A friend said something to me at a recent conference that struck me. It came after a presentation on how a cloud-based tool enabled...
As an entrepreneur who bootstrapped my company, ReTargeter, with less than $50,000 in funding, I wanted to share some of my tips and lessons...
Selling to a new customer is difficult. Holding that customer can be even more difficult. It all comes down to what you provide in...
When you try to have meaningful conversations with your employees, the outcome can be hit-or-miss. Let’s say you are interested in what motivates them...
Leaders, are you seen as “of the people” you have chosen to lead or as separate from them? I understand that leaders have unique...
Being a manager means never having to say you’re sorry. No wait, that’s some dumb line from a horrible 1970s movie. However, there may...
Attracting the right kinds of workers can be difficult. In fact, a recent survey found that 35% of employers reported problems in finding staff...
Leadership lessons from the online world extend beyond the content. Learn as much from watching what bloggers do, as what they say. 1. Say...
Edward Snowden’s revelations of what the National Security Agency knows about us have gotten us talking about the role of secrecy in a free...
Corporate training programs often ask people to define what they are looking for in a leader. Respondents tell us they want leaders who are...
Too often, I’ve seen telecommuting as the scapegoat for a lack of communication and creativity within remote teams. More recently, it’s a debate that...
A new vice president (“Hank”) was hired from outside the company to fix the organization’s broken supply chain. He was put on a short...
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs.The YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a...
Change is part of organizational life — inevitable, unsettling and necessary. Too often when managers are pushed to improve, they make changes without taking...
“Moneyball” was a book and movie based on Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and his use of statistics (sabermetrics, to be precise) to...
The following answers are provided by the Young Entrepreneur Council, an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. The YEC recently launched #StartupLab,...