Most organizations still exist inside the big box that is defined by their organization chart. And within that big box, there exists many more interconnected boxes. Some organizations have tried to get rid of these boxes, for example replacing them with circles, but these are still boxes, albeit without the edges. Being the head of …
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics Every effective leader I’ve come across has honed their leadership skills not through formal education but through practicing and “being” a leader. Reflecting upon those with impressive leadership skills that I personally know, and …
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Focused leadership always wins out over scattered leadership. But many leaders find themselves unfocused, chasing too many priorities…
Leaders have a lot of explaining to do. And sometimes, amidst all the hurly burly of everyday leadership life, they miss some key questions that their followers have uppermost on their minds. Here are five of my favorites:
The world has changed a lot since the dawn of the industrial age. Yet our approach to managing organizations has fundamentally remained the same. We still have top down, control oriented hierarchies, whose main preoccupation seems to be to prevent independent, creative or innovative thinking and doing. Yet the demand for managers who can inspire us, …
