| By David Witt, leaderchat.org | In this episode of the Blanchard LeaderChat podcast, we speak with Ken Blanchard, co-editor of the new book, Servant Leadership in Action. LISTEN NOW: https://leaderchat.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/blc-ken-blanchard-episode.mp3 For Blanchard, servant leadership isn’t just a book or a nice-to-have management concept. Instead, he sees it as a movement—a shift from leadership that is self-focused […]
A Checklist for Transformative Leaders
By Elaine P. Maimon for The Chronicle of Higher Education Higher-education transformation, which is essential if colleges and universities are to survive in the 21st century, relies on transformative presidential leadership. Twenty-seven years ago, Judy B. Rosener, now a professor emerita in the business school at the University of California at Irvine, wrote an article in the Harvard […]
Why Great Leaders Do These 5 Things in Every Meeting
| By Kristi Hedges, www.inc.com | Most people accept that meetings are a part of work–but that doesn’t mean they enjoy them. As this infographic shows, managers spend between 35-50% of their time in meetings, and up to four hours a week just on status updates. And those same bosses consider 67% of meetings to be failures. Try as you might to escape […]
3 Management Fundamentals That Will Serve You Well In 2018
| By Victor Lipman, www.forbes.com | We often tend to make things harder than they are. While you’ll never catch me saying management is an easy job (if it were, we’d never have around 70% of employees chronically disengaged), some of the basics underlying success involve far more common sense than complexity. In this spirit, let’s look at three […]
8 Principles for Building a High-Performance Culture
| By Michael Mckinney, www.leadershipnow.com | WHEN IT COMES to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. Powerful is a book of advice gained from her experience at Netflix. When McCord began her career in Human Resources at Netflix, she began working with Reed Hastings to identify the behaviors that they […]
3 Steps to Creating Accountability in Others
| By Jim Haudan, www.inc.com | Why is accountability something that everyone talksabout but few are good at? Somewhere around 80% of the organizations and senior leaders we work with have issues with the A-word. Some say it means holding people responsible for the results they deliver. Many assert that when people don’t deliver, they should be shown […]
The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers
| By Sydney Finkelstein, hbr.org | Kundapur Vaman Kamath was a teacher. But he didn’t work at a school or stand in front of a class. Instead, he delivered his lessons at the office—to the employees who served under him during his four decades as a senior executive at, and then CEO of, India’s ICICI Bank. Whether […]
The Five Pillars of Popovich
| By Ira Boudway, www.bloomberg.com | Gregg Popovich, the crusty, ingenious NBA coach, will never write the management advice guide that business needs. So we wrote it for him. Since Gregg Popovich took over as head coach of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs 21 years ago, the rest of the league’s teams have replaced their leaders 228 […]