| By Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com | Dan Gilbert runs an empire. He makes many of his public appearances as the billionaire owner of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, but he’s also the chairman and founder of Rock Ventures, his holding company for over 100 businesses, including the Cavs, the real-estate company Bedrock that’s transforming downtown Detroit, and the company […]
12 Leadership Development Questions Any Leader Can Use Today
| leadershipfreak.blog | Every teacher learns before they teach. Every teacher learns while they teach. The learner in the coffee shop: I stood and embraced Jack when he walked into the coffee shop where I was meeting with a young leader. Jack’s in his 80’s and an elder statesman in the community where I live. He looked at the young […]
The Five Levels Of Leadership (And Where You Stand)
| By Ed Krow, www.forbes.com | We all know a manager who uses fear tactics. We probably also know a manager who leads as a coach, inspiring rather than forcing people to get things done. Which type of leader are you? There are five key levels of leadership in an organization. I don’t see them necessarily as […]
Communicating Respect: Nine Simple Ways To Build Credibility
| By Dean Brenner, www.forbes.com | Showing your audience respect has a lot of great payoffs. It makes your audience feel engaged and positive, it can enable a culture of buy-in, in which people feel committed not only to execute a plan or implement a new product but to make it succeed, and it can make you […]
The Leadership Superpower That Builds Trust and Connection
| By Randy Conley, leadingwithtrust.com | If you could have any superpower in the world that would help you be a better leader, what would it be? Mind-control could be a good choice. Manipulating people’s minds to make them do what you want would certainly make your job easier. Or how about super-intelligence? If you were the […]
How to Run a Company With (Almost) No Rules
| TEDTalk | What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to how workers report their vacation days (they don’t have to). It’s a vision that rewards the wisdom of workers, promotes work-life balance — and leads to some […]
How To Create Working Relationships Even When Communication Seems Challenging
| By David Homan, www.forbes.com | We don’t choose our family, and we usually don’t get to choose our co-workers or our board members, unless we’re among top decision-makers. This can put us in a challenging position of finding ways to solve problems with others, as we might not always see eye to eye with those who […]
Too Much Team Harmony Can Kill Creativity
| By Tomas Chamorro-premuzic, Darko Lovric, hbr.org | William Wrigley Jr., the American chewing gum tycoon, once noted that business is built by men who disagree, and that “When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” Indeed, not just in business but also in politics, sports, and the arts, there is no shortage of real-world examples of successful […]