For ages the pundits, educators, and practitioners alike have sought relentlessly to figure out what it is that leads some businesses to successful outcomes while others stagnate, sway, or even realize certain death. Often times from afar two businesses can look, feel, and act very similar. They may be in a similar industry, create similar […] Read more… Read More»
Here’s one that has confounded me for a long time. Maybe you can help me wrap my head around it: Why do so many companies provide such terrible customer experience when their leaders more or less dwell in five-star service themselves? Say you’re CEO of a sizable company. Chances are you’re making $5 million, $8 million, $12 […] Read more… Read More»
What we like about Ryan’s guest post is the cheeky, yet relevant undertone to his message. Ryan’s post, Gen Y’s Resignation Letter to Bosses, has a different tone than what other’s have shared. We like that too…. Read More»
The era that placed managers as the paragons of leadership commandeering business to success is dead. This inflated sense of importance has led to rampant egotism felling once great companies to ruins. Think Enron. Think Lehman Brothers. Think Standard Chartered. Think Bernie Madoff’s company. Certainly it takes a strong personality to lead, no matter the […] Read more… Read More»
Believe it or not, at one point or another every business was a start up. Berkshire Hathaway, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, and on and on. While few will become Fortune 500 companies, many organizations grow up and become fluid ecosystems that live and grow, both in revenue and in human resource. Gaining maturity, organizations arrive at […] Read more… Read More»
Which seems more accurate to you? People are generally good, and want to do their best. People will take advantage if you let them. This is more than a management issue, it’s a worldview. But this worldview informs our management philosophy and practices. Didn’t realize you had a management philosophy? Oh, you do. We all […] Read more… Read More»
With two blades that serve as the lower half of his legs, Olympian Oscar Pistorius defies categorization by his disability. I wonder if he even sees not having two full flesh legs as a disability? Oscar’s determination and fight to participate in this year’s Olympics is a story we all know. His compelling story holds […] Read more… Read More»
The more business leaders I talk to in my career, the more I’ve learned to cringe at the follow-the-lemming mentality steering most companies. Want spectacular results in business? Find out where everyone else is going – and run, don’t walk, in the opposite direction! I hope you enjoy this page ripped straight from the business […] Read more… Read More»
When Charlene Li published Open Leadership my friends and I groaned. We wished we had written the book. Charlene masterfully helped us peer into the influence of social technology and the transformative reaches its having on business and leadership. Since Open Leadership, the roots of social technology have only grown stronger. Some research shows that […] Read more… Read More»
While I believe that much about leadership can be learned, I have also come to find out that the practice of leadership is rarely successful via the application of textbook principles. As someone who has long studied, taught, and practiced leadership, trust me when I say there are thousands of leadership principles. Most of which […] Read more… Read More»
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