Women are over-educated and under-developed. Yup. We think that going to a training class is the solution to our “development needs”. Thus, more than 50% of both undergraduate and master’s degrees are […]
#Leadership: Too much of a good thing?
My mom told me this over forty years ago, but somehow it took until 2010 for management researchers to find out that too much of a good thing, isn’t a good thing […]
Singing and #Leadership
Strong leaders possess higher levels of three personality attributes: openness to experience, extraversion and conscientiousness and lower levels of agreeableness and neuroticism. In other words, leaders like to try new things, are […]
To Aspiring Leaders: Get Your Shit Together
I’ve been posting recently about work ethic and professionalism for leaders and aspiring leaders. Here is why: Professor Scott Galloway (Stern School of Business, NYU) received this email: Sent: Tuesday, February 9, […]
Work Ethic is the “secret sauce” of your 20s
Being in your 20s sucks. For those of you currently in your 20s, it’s going to suck more. We’ve raised a generation of students who expect to receive a lot in exchange […]
#Leadership Basics: Getting Things Done
We live in a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Our VUCA world is one of the contributing factors to our need for greater leadership skills in the workplace. And […]
40% of our time spent influencing others – isn’t that #Leadership?
We spend a lot of our time selling. Selling things and ideas. In fact, according to Daniel Pink, in his new book, “To sell is human”, we spend roughly 40% of our […]
Strategic Leadership: Vision plus Management
We have a new Pope. As a non-Catholic teaching at a Catholic University, I have been following the coverage of this new leader of the world-wide Roman Catholic Church with interest. Pope […]
Leadership Development: Knowing, Doing, Being
Often leaders look to training to fill the leadership gap in their organizations. They identify the best and brightest, the “high potentials”. They then send them to extensive leadership training to become […]
High Expectations + Compassion = Leadership
I’ve been troubled for a long time with the leadership hero-worship of Steve Jobs, mainly because everything I read about him suggested that he was a nasty, rough bully. But when I […]
Heros and Leadership
Not too long ago, my mother mended one of my niece’s quilts, and just like magic, the worn spot was fixed. My sister asked my niece if grandma was her hero. And, […]
Are Women the limiting factor? Women’s #Leadership & Self-Promotion
Self-promotion is an important strategy for leaders. Why? Because followers and other leaders look for confidence and competence in leaders, and self-promotion has been shown to increase people’s perception of both confidence […]
Thinking is Hard Work 