There is more than one side to the story. Every leader needs to remember that as they sort through difficult and challenging times. So recently, when I was reading the book, “Making […]
Features vs. Functions of #Leadership
There are four “levels” of leadership we see in most organizations: The leader – developing self, developing character, being self-aware Leadership of others Leadership of teams Leadership of organizations Have you noticed […]
#Leadership and Time
How do good leaders think about time? I’m not talking about time management, or about speed to market. I’m talking about how we frame our decisions. Good leaders use the past, the […]
#Leading: My way or the highway
Sometimes being a leader means that you have to be rigid. When trying to change a culture or shifting to a new vision, there are often a small, hard-core group of people […]
Culture, Intelligence and Resilience: A Leader’s Role
The beliefs we hold about the nature of intelligence influences the type of goals we set for ourselves and our behaviours. Carol Dweck and her fellow researchers have been exploring implicit theories […]
The Above Average Effect
Performance evaluations and regular feedback are a part of corporate life. They are designed with the assumption that if people receive feedback, that their performance will improve. But does performance improve? It […]
Celebrating the “Small People”: Getting Things Done
Two years ago, Carl Henric Svanberg, the Chairman of the Board of British Petroleum commented on the impact of the U.S. Gulf Oil Spill that was caused by a BP deep water […]
Empowerment & #Leadership
Empowerment is a crucial tool in our modern leadership toolkit. We write and talk about “empowering” our people constantly – Google the term empowerment; you’ll get nine million search results. Empowerment has […]
Assumptions & Stereotypes: Biasing Performance Assessments
“All done work? On vacation now?” These are a university professor’s favourite conversation starters in the spring. Most people assume that because I am not in a classroom that I’m not working. […]
Leadership Lessons from Buzz Lightyear
Recently our leadership class discussed the leadership of teams. After debriefing a learning exercise, we started talking about the importance of consistent responses to inappropriate behaviour. Which started me thinking about a […]
There is no “War for Talent”
Yet again, consulting firms are making their money on a phony war. This time its a re-run of McKinsey’s War for Talent. The Hay group recently published a report on Leadership 2030. […]
Mental Models of Followership
Do you have a mental model of a good follower? Of a bad follower? In my last post I wrote about Implicit Leadership Theories, and in this post, I’m going to talk […]