Leaders: How to Be a Successful CEO

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Kristi Royse

The Social Network movie gave a behind-the-scenes story on Mark Zuckerberg telling how he dropped out of Harvard while developing Facebook and has become one of the most famous, powerful, and youngest CEOs in the world. How has he done this? Leadership Lessons of Mark Zuckerberg and Steven Jobs Walter Isaacson’s biography on Steven Jobs has generated many “spirited [...]

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Lazy Leaders: Get Off Your Pedestal

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Cheryl Dilley

Whether leaders put themselves on a pedestal or the employees who work for them do, the pedestal is a wobbly place to be especially when the ground shakes beneath it. I recently interviewed for a position in our Executive Leadership Development organization.  The interviewer, a person I’ve known for some time and greatly respect, had some of [...]

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The Penalty Box: Plight of a Good Leader

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Cheryl Dilley

Believe it or not, leaders are human too. They make mistakes. And they suffer the consequences like the rest of us. These mistakes can result from many reasons: Not having all the right information before a decision is made Not understanding the impact to all levels of the organization Underestimating underlying relationships between stakeholders, managers, customers, or peers Not comprehending where alliances reside within the [...]

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Leaders: How to Get More Creativity, Energy, and Clarity

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Mari Peck

Do you want more creativity, energy, problem-solving, and clear-thinking at your workplace? Of course you do! Who doesn’t want a team that is happy, energetic, creative, and solves problems easily?  I can’t think of one organization that couldn’t benefit in this way. I think we may have found the magic bullet. And the great news is this: [...]

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Leadership Follies: Training Is Not A Cure-All

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Anil Saxena

For many years consultants and experts have tried to convince leaders that training can impact performance. It seems like the problem is no longer that they don’t believe that training is important, but that now those same leaders thing that training is the “cure-all” or “silver-bullet.” “What has made people think that training people will [...]

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Occupied With Ethics

Posted on November 9, 2011 by George Brymer

The following comments, spoken by a once-prominent business executive, appear to be a warning for graduates about the ethical challenges awaiting them in the business world. As it turns out, his words provide a hint that the speaker is a crook. “You will be confronted with questions every day that test your morals. Think carefully, [...]

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Trust in the Workplace: The Leader’s Judgement Call

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Aryanne Oade

As a leader in your organisation, you work in a role where you cannot achieve anything of value unilaterally.  You need to work well with a range of other colleagues to achieve outcomes of benefit to your employer. One of the issues you need to manage as you set about doing this is whom to [...]

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