By Whitney Johnson, www.forbes.com “Who’s the company that we keep?” asks Sanyin Siang. “What criteria do we choose them on? No jerks and weenies is a very strong criteria.” In a leadership conversation that is often cluttered with science and pseudo-science, I find Siang’s vernacular refreshing. As she points out, a person can be rich, powerful and […]
The Vital Role Of Positive Feedback As A Leadership Strength
By Jack Zenger, www.forbes.com The Manager’s Perspective I am about to show you that most managers have some mistaken beliefs about the best kind of feedback to give their subordinates. In survey we shared on Harvard Business Review of 7,631 managers, my colleague Joe Folkman and I asked whether they believed that giving negative feedback was stressful or difficult […]
4 Ways Failing Makes You A Better Leader
By Deep Patel, www.forbes.com Failure can be a leader’s greatest lesson. Why? It can take falling down to help you find the right path to success. There are many people who have failed miserably in business before eventually hitting it big. And while the initial failure may have been difficult to swallow, each person achieved even better results later on. […]
How To Build Your Leadership Capacity
By Jeff Boss, www.forbes.com When I was going through selection and training for a particular SEAL team, one of the first things the instructors did was send the class a message about leadership: they cut the majority of the officers and senior enlisted from leadership positions and replaced them with junior members. The reason behind this was […]