Tag: leadership
Showing 10 of 48 results (by popularity)
A New Story for a New Time
Throughout our existence, people have told stories as a way to understand our place in the universe and shape our action. When a radically…
“Staging” a Comeback at Unilever
Over the past couple of years, O some brave souls in the business world have started to talk about the link between personal growth…
Creating Tomorrow’s Innovators Today
In 2010, IBM’s Institute for Business Value surveyed 1,500 chief executives from 60 counties and 33 industries to determine the foremost issue confronting them…
Leadership at the Inflection Point
For a leader, few experiences compare with the gut-wrenching discovery that you are unprepared to face a changing reality. It’s even worse if you…
Three Attributes to Sustainable Leadership
In Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion (Harvard Business School Press, 2005), Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee…
Achieving Breakthrough Business Results Through Personal Change
In 1997 Rick Fox, asset leader on Ursa, Shell Oil’s largest deep-water project in the Gulf of Mexico, faced a quandary: Oil drilling problems…
A or B?
Sometimes, you simply have to choose. Do I send my child to this day care or that one? Do I buy this new car…
Relieving the Stress of Others
Here’s a story from the Harvard Business Review about helping other people manager stress (“Leading in Times of Trauma” by Jane E. Dutton et…
How Is Your Leadership Changing?
Im sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st-century companion, leadership has taken a great leap…
Leadership as a Second Language
In his latest—and most valuable —book, The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action Through Narrative (Jossey-Bass, 2007), Stephen Denning develops in much…