This year, I taught Leadership in Business for the first time. I loved teaching it. And the best part was how much I learned from my students. Here are some quotes from […]
#Leadership & Experience
One of my ongoing objections to teaching “leadership” at an undergraduate level is that individuals understand leadership through a lens of personal experience. Most undergraduates, especially in first and second year just […]
More Nonsense: Women and Corporate #Leadership
A recent study from the German Central Bank, as noted in the Globe and Mail, suggests that women on corporate boards actually result in riskier decision-making. The study covered the period of […]
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 […]
Leadership Lessons from the Hunger Games
You have to be asleep these days to have missed all of the hype surrounding the release of the first Hunger Games movie. If you haven’t read the books, they aren’t just […]
There are Universal Leadership Traits
I had a heated debate the other day with a philosophy professor about the idea of universal ethics. He strongly stated the belief that a universal code of ethics existed, while I […]
CEOs Do Impact Performance, but Not the Way You Think
CEO narcissism impacts company strategy and performance. Donald Hambrick and Arijit Chatterlee, in a 2007 study, demonstrated that CEO narcissism influenced the degree of strategic dynamism, strategic grandiosity, extreme operating results and […]
Leadership Attribution Error
Our emphasis on leaders in academic, political and business circles has created a set of expectations of leaders that are both unrealistic and possibly negative. I’ve written in the past about the […]
Judging Leadership Effectiveness by Appearance
We’ve all heard about the importance of first impressions. Recent research from the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies suggests that we can actually predict someone’s personality quite accurately merely from a […]
Questioning Our Beliefs: Confirmation Bias
Human beings make bad decisions all of the time. We use rules of thumb or “heuristics” in order to speed up decision-making. A recent article in Psychology Today, “Deadly Mind Traps” by […]
Top Leadership Gurus
Wow. I just googled top leadership experts and got this link, Top Leadership Gurus. Do you notice any patterns in the list? First, the list was predominantly US driven. Kind of ignoring […]
Leadership and Meaning
Brands are empty containers of meaning. Companies have a meaning they want the consumer to believe, and consumers develop meaning through interactions, both good and bad, with the brand. Check out this […]