Leadership
Leadership
Research indicates that coaching can increase performance much more than skill-focused job training alone. Most leaders, however, never learn the basic principles of successful coaching, why they are important, or how...
In 1998, Kevin Cashman first published Leadership from the Inside Out, a breakthrough bestseller, connecting personal growth and leadership effectiveness. Since then, the book has been integrated into...
Krazy George Henderson, on an October day in 1981 at Oakland Stadium, invented the sweep of crowd enthusiasm now known as the Wave. His seemingly trivial feat of coordinating humans to work together toward a common...
Today, the working world is smaller and much more integrated. Home base for a business isn’t necessarily one’s home country, and leadership may often take business professionals out of their cultural comfort zones....
Ask employees at any company and you will find a vast majority of them have worked with a “toxic” employee. They go by many names: control freaks, narcissists, manipulators, bullies, or humiliators, but the result of...
Tim Irwin’s Derailed focuses on how a lack of key character qualities can cause a leader to go off track. To make his case, Irwin profiles six very public leadership demises: Bob Nardelli of Home Depot, Carly Fiorina...
Gerry Czarnecki states that the “direct and unambiguous impact leaders have on their associates is almost incalculable” and that skilled leadership can create a competitive advantage. In Lead with Love...
Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a set of skills that facilitates effective cross-cultural management. Instead of learning the intricacies of the culture and practices of every nation, CQ provides a broad-based model that...
When employees are fully engaged, they deliver passionate performance, a strong, sustained intellectual and emotional attachment to their work. Passionate performance creates a wall of differentiation between a firm...
With an increasing number of employees working outside the central workplace, direct control over members of a project team is a thing of the past. In The Distance Manager, authors Kimball Fisher and...
