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6 TED Talks from 2019 to Share with Your Leadership Team
It's time to decide how you want to lead your organization in 2020. How did your leadership team impact organizational culture, and, ultimately, performance, in 2019? Were they too busy focusing on daily demands to read case studies and dig through reports about the latest...
MLK, Jr.: How His Leadership Legacy Marches On In 12 Powerful Quotes
Last week, Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 91. While it is customary to look to our elders for sage advice, King knew that he was walking a path of imminent danger, but that his words could not be silenced by a bullet. Before his assassination at age 39, King...
Servant Leadership: 50 Years After Greenleaf Penned the Essay
The year 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the origins of servant leadership. Robert K. Greenleaf was a mid-20th century iconoclast who argued that leaders should use their positions of power to help their teams succeed rather than for self-interest and personal...
Doing Well by Doing Good: 12 Companies that Got it Right in 2019
The best organizations today understand that culture is their strongest asset and can be the glue to retaining top talent. Whether you nurture it or not, you have a culture. It may be empowering or toxic. Either way, the results are showing up on your bottom line. ...
7 Books to Add to Your Leadership Library this Holiday Season
After the presents are wrapped and before we ring in the new year, we’re looking forward to curling up on the couch with a meaty book on history, culture, or science to improve our leadership acumen. Here are the top picks that we’ve added to our holiday wish list this...
Misunderstood Much? Here Are 4 Ways to Respond When Your Character is Attacked, By Dr. Tony Baron
Over the past 10 years, I have been honored to explore and debate the essence of power with Dr. Tony Baron. Specifically, how power impacts leadership, how leadership impacts culture, and, ultimately, how culture impacts performance. With a double doctorate in psychology...
3 Ways Successful Leaders Navigate Career Tension
Once or twice a year, a client and I manage to squeeze in a long-overdue lunch. We’re about the same age. We’re both women. We’ve both risen through the ranks and gained a certain amount of leadership credibility in our respective fields. A conversation we had over lunch a...
2 Key Practices to Help Leaders Avoid Stress Addiction
"On the morning of April 7, 2007, I was lying on the floor of my home office in a pool of blood. On my way down, my head had hit the corner of my desk, cutting my eye and breaking my cheekbone. I had collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep.” Those are the opening words...
6 Universal Truths to Help Leaders Navigate Change
Can you feel it in the air? For the past few weeks, everything around us has been changing. The sun is setting earlier. Leaves are changing in color to vibrant reds and deep yellows. There’s no denying that fall is here and winter is just around the corner. As humans, we...
Keep Calm: 5 NEW Leadership & Development Solutions Just in Time for 2020 Budget Season
The top-rated challenge identified in Deloitte’s 2019 Global Human Capital Trends? Learning. People now rate the “opportunity to learn” as among their top reason for taking a job, and business leaders now require continuous, lifelong development to keep up with changes in...
Succession or Bust: How to Pass the Baton as a Founder CEO
HBO’s new drama, Succession, about an aging media tycoon’s struggle with turning over stewardship of his empire is part Rupert Murdoch case study and part King Lear. The CEO-cum-founder’s inability to pass the reins is an all too common leadership transition facing today’s...
3 Daily Practices to Help Leaders Reflect and Refuel
During the 3 minutes it will take you to read this post, you’ll probably get an email, a text, a social media update or a missed call. Let 30 minutes pass, and you could be swimming in unanswered inbounds. A steady diet of requests for your attention – both...