| Sally Percy Contributor, Forbes.com | You would be forgiven for thinking that servant leadership is a new idea. The concept sounds very 21stcentury because it aligns with our technology-driven era where individuals are empowered to connect with influential people and organizations in a way that wasn’t possible in the past. In fact, though, the term […]
Forgiveness As A Key Leadership Attribute
| By Manpreet Dhillon, www.forbes.com | Leadership requires a great deal of compassion. When you’re in a leadership role, you’re forced to look at others in a critical light, especially when you’re managing groups of people. You’re evaluating other people’s performance, contributions to team efforts, etc. When managers and leaders are working with team members, it’s important […]
How To Lead Differently
| Sally Percy, Forbes.com | We live in times that are different from all those that have gone before us. So it’s hardly surprising that these times require a different kind of leader. This kind of leader is agile, collaborative, inclusive and mentally tough. This kind of leader understands the need for continuous improvement, at both […]
How To Hire For Cultural Fit (& Not Just A Gut Feeling)
| By William Vanderbloemen, www.forbes.com | My friend Jim may be the single worst person at firing staff that I have ever met. Jim is fairly difficult to work for. He makes quirky decisions on the fly, changes his mind frequently, and changes people’s job descriptions without notice. Believe it or not, his turnover is pretty high. […]
Turning Purpose Into Performance
| hbr.org | Gerry Anderson, the CEO of DTE Energy, and Robert Quinn and Anjan Thakor, professors at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and the Olin Business School at Washington University, respectively, discuss how an aspirational mission can motivate employees and improve performance. Anderson talks about his own experience. Quinn and Thakor explain their research showing how leaders […]
5 Ways To Be A Conscious Leader
| www.forbes.com | Conscious leaders speak with integrity, lead with authenticity and hold themselves accountable. They listen with the intent to understand and not just to respond, and they do it by being in tune with themselves and the world around them. As Jim Dethmer explains in his book, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership, unconscious leaders […]
Culture Change: It Starts At The Top
| By Report Corrections, www.forbes.com | I was working with a major industrial good company a couple of years ago whose CEO decided the company needed to become more customer-focused. This, he told me, had become his top priority. But despite letting the company’s employees know that ‘Customers Are #1,’ he wasn’t seeing evidence of that. He […]
4 Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team
| By Tomas Chamorro-premuzic, Josh Bersin, hbr.org | Technology is disrupting every industry and area of life, and work is no exception. One of the main career implications of the digital revolution is a shift in demand for human expertise. For instance, LinkedIn’s talent research shows that half of today’s most in-demand skills weren’t even on the list three years […]