Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
Fighting Self-Delusion in Leadership
This is a guest post from Betty Bailey, Ph.D from Reliant. LeaderLab has partnered with Relient to offer a FREE Leadership Development Assessment to our readership. To take the assessment, click here. “In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.”—Eric Hoffe People who become executives begin their careers as functional [...]
Why The “Born or Made” Debate is Irrelevant
As long as we have discussed leadership, we’ve debated whether effective leaders were born with the right skills or were trained to be effective. Born or Made? It’s a classic debate. It’s also a rather pointless debate, as the real answer is likely a bit of both. Recent research led by Crystal Hoyt, however, has [...]
Learn to Teach. Teach to Learn
When I retired, I thought I was through with business. And I was, until the social network came along and enticed me to blog. Like most bloggers, I write about what I know; that’s strategy, leadership and branding. My motive is nothing more than to share my experience with today’s business community in the hope they [...]
What Happened to Strategy?
Over the past 50 years, strategy has been examined, factored and reduced to a few simple formulas. In that time, strategy has moved from the realm of senior leaders to the hoards MBAs and consultants. That’s the thrust of the argument Cynthia Montgomery makes in The Strategist: Be the Leader Your Business Needs. Montgomery writes, [...]
Leading for Innovation: Why Fighting Fires Burns Down the House
This is a guest post form Soren Kaplan. Soren is the Managing Principal of InnovationPoint, an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands and the author of the new book Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs. One simple question lies at the heart of [...]
