A recent experience has given me a lot of hope for future leaders! Last summer, my daughter, Maryn, attended a leadership dynamics camp offered by her high school for incoming freshmen. During this ...
In this Covid crisis, leaders are faced with changing conditions as never before. Social distancing, wearing facial masks, restrictions on frequenting bars, restaurants, gyms, (foreign) travel, and ...
How do you know you're ready to fill the big shoes? If you want to prove to your employer that you're ready for a promotion, ...
When a leading research team began tracking results of privately held industry companies, a great deal of data was collected, analyzed, and compared. They began to look for patterns of performance ...
I believe three fundamental principles about leadership. First, every person is a leader in some capacity, whether in business, family, athletic team, civic organization, church, synagogue, mosque, or ...
The driving forces of exceptional leadership are desire, self-awareness and, most important, compassion. Effective leadership cannot prevail under negative circumstances such as putdowns, dishonesty, ...
This first characteristic of a great leader encompasses a host of similar ones, such as honesty, integrity, candor, transparency, and accountability. If you're the leader of a company, your underlings ...
Patience and tolerance are just bells and whistles, new research suggests. Stereotypically feminine leadership traits like niceness, kindness and sensitivity to others’ needs are viewed as unnecessary ...
Last year, a business partner of ours asked me to present to a group of up-and-coming managers on leadership. This forced me to reflect on the lessons I have learned that might help steer a ...
When NAPL’s Printing Economic Research Center (PERC) began tracking results of privately held printing companies, a great deal of data was collected, analyzed, and compared. Led by Chief Economist ...
Today, companies slow to respond to change ultimately lose, left behind by companies that can anticipate and harness change to their advantage. We are moving into an era in which business agility is ...