Four laws provide most of the fundamental knowledge necessary to guide a successful manager's initial diagnoses and path to success. Here is a brief summary of the four laws, along with some questions to test your own mastery of the fundamentals...
Businesses that don't take productive steps to plan for future talent needs at all levels will face certain disruptions-even disasters-when key employees retire or are lured away by competitors. So the importance of succession planning. So...
What does it take to create a superstar team? The fundamentals are fairly simple, says the coauthor of the new book The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization. To begin, focus on “bringing the wow.”
Traditionally, leaders are responsible for establishing and communicating the vision and mission of the organization to their groups. Today, however, the job must extend to leadership training.
A challenge for leaders is to communicate the importance of innovation and renewal and to create a culture that encourages those within the organization to learn and to change. The means to learn this skill may rest with study of species of birds.
Here's a list of leadership values to keep on your bulletin board.
The results of an American Management Association/i4cp study on leadership competencies.
Leaders are good strategists and planners. Again, what I’ve found in working with successful men and women in business is that they’re very, very good planners. They have taken the time to learn or been taught how to do strategic thinking.
Mark Vickers of i4cp has a question for today’s organizations: Given all the resources poured into leadership development, why aren’t they doing a better job at it? In a recent i4p study, three quarters of respondents said that developing leaders is highly important, but less than a quarter of respo
Should your organization grow its leadership from within, or acquire it from without? Each tactic has its advantages and disadvantages, according to Robert Barner, author of Bench Strength. Here, Barner explains the factors organizations should...