Baby Boomers are lingering in the workplace. Economic uncertainty has caused many to remain on the job.
The younger Gen X and Gen Y are growing impatient to ascend to leadership responsibilities, and new graduates are knocking at HR’s door in record numbers.
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Leadership Resilience: The Art of Bouncing Back
“Some of the most important and insightful learning is far more likely to come from failures than from success.” ~ Former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, interviewed in Harvard Business Review (April 2011) How we respond to failures and bounce back from our mistakes can make or break our … [Read more...] about Leadership Resilience: The Art of Bouncing Back
8 Keys to Picking the Right Coach
“There’s no question that future leaders will need constant coaching,” notes Ram Charan, author of Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty (McGraw-Hill, 2008). “As the business environment becomes more complex, they will increasingly turn to coaches for help in understanding how to … [Read more...] about 8 Keys to Picking the Right Coach
The Case for Clarity: A Key Leadership Quality
“Effective leaders don’t have to be passionate. They don’t have to be charming. They don’t have to be brilliant… They don’t have to be great speakers. What they must be is clear. Above all else, they must never forget the truth that of all the human universals – our need for security, for … [Read more...] about The Case for Clarity: A Key Leadership Quality
Rethinking the Future: Leadership for the 21st Century
“Today’s knowledge revolution, having launched a gigantic ‘Third Wave’ of economic, technical and social change, is forcing businesses to operate in radically new, continually shifting ways….every shred of industrial-era thinking is now being rescrutinized and brilliantly reformulated.” —Alvin … [Read more...] about Rethinking the Future: Leadership for the 21st Century
Judgment: Making Great Calls
What is the fundamental essence of leadership? Is it the ability to make consistently good judgment calls? Realistically, leaders are remembered for their best and worst judgment calls, especially when the stakes are high, information is limited and the correct call is far from obvious. In the … [Read more...] about Judgment: Making Great Calls
9 Common Delusions About High Performance
Do you really know what contributes to your company’s high performance — or are you making assumptions based on faulty logic? It turns out that most of the data regarding why one company succeeds and another fails is rife with errors in thinking and researcher bias. For all of the business … [Read more...] about 9 Common Delusions About High Performance
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