Leadership Transitions: How Not to Fail

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Beth Armknecht Miller

In the October 2009 edition of Chief Learning Officer, Michael D. Watkins’ article “The Eight Toughest Transitions for Leaders” outlined the top transitions that most business leaders have to navigate during their career.   The transitions are: Promotion Leading former peers Diplomacy (authority versus influence) New organization International move Organizational turnaround Corporate strategy realignment Business [...]

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Leadership Follies – Moving Furniture In a Burning House

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Anil Saxena

Do you ever wonder if people running out of a burning house are thinking about rearranging the furniture? Would you think them crazy if they did?   And yet this is what we do so often in business. We run around doing things that don’t matter and really don’t make much sense… We are often [...]

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Leadership Lesson from Captain Picard

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Bryan Moore

Leadership lessons come from all sorts of different places.  Persons, events, articles, conversations, quotes, scriptures. Some intended as motivational and inspirational, some happenstance and epiphanic. As a fan of the sci-fi genre, I have spent too much time traveling “where no person has gone before.” While those hours at first blush may seem like time [...]

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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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Conflict, Daggers, and Punches at Work

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

Are you ready for the really BIG holiday season moving into high gear?  Are you ready for the hectic effort to push and pull everything and everyone around you up that steep hill to profits from now till the end of the year? More importantly, are you ready for the extra stress, tension, and, you [...]

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Leaders: Stepping Up Your Game? Learn From Winners!

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Jerry Runser

I help organizations improve their “game,” and I love my job. In fact, my hobby is reading and learning about how innovative organizations are stepping up their games all the time. It’s like I am like a sports fanatic working as a coach in his favorite sport. On Sports and Leadership Speaking of sports, I [...]

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office – Part 2 Losing Our Purpose

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Doug Ramsey

[See  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office – Part 1 Denial] Let’s face it; we didn’t expect to be in this situation.  We expected a life of good jobs, and a growing economy that supports our real goal of creating wealth and a better more prosperous way of life.   The American Dream, [...]

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