3 Steps to Influential Leadership: Step 1 – Allowance

While there are many ideas and theories about what makes up influential leadership, there are three ingredients that are ‘necessary, but not enough.’  They are necessary for influential leadership, but not sufficient.  Of course, there are many more ingredients to cook up influential leadership, but whatever recipe you are using to help improve your leadership [...]

On Leadership, NASCAR and Changing Gears

Race car driving is a potent metaphor for leadership.  Watching any NASCAR race shows how many people it takes to keep the car running and get it over the finish line.  An efficiently running business is no different… The Leadership Lane True leadership develops when organizations can unite behind a common purpose that serves their [...]

L2L Book Review: “Platform”

Rarely does a book come out that has the potential to impact so many people like the new book called PLATFORM: Get Noticed in a Noisy World from Michael Hyatt. If you already do not know, Michael Hyatt is the poster-child of the online CEO blogger/podcaster/social media expert. Personal Background I was introduced to Michael Hyatt [...]

Leaders: True Transformation Has to Start at the Top

There is an undeniable trend of transformation going on in corporations around the globe.  Economic crisis, bad politics, global climate changes, survival and disruptive technology are just a few reasons behind the trend.  Reinventing Your Leaders Many companies, large and small have to come up with creative ways to reinvent themselves. This requires change: Tops [...]

Leaders: Are you Building a “Bridge to Nowhere?”

Many people have heard of the infamous “bridge to nowhere”  in Alaska that became a veritable hockey puck in the 2008 U.S. presidential election and occasionally reemerges in the current election cycle. In fact one Republican candidate used the cliché to attack another candidate in the February 22nd debate in Arizona. Most people hear the [...]

Leaders: How to Be a Successful CEO

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 [...]

Leaders: You Can’t Really Manage Change

During a recent project that involved whole scale transformation of a client’s system to manage, hire, compensate, reward and recognize, 65% of their employees are who drive their profitability. The concept of managing change really is a fallacy. Traditional Change  There are many statistics indicating that traditional change management is only successful in approximately 30% – [...]

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