Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about using AI to optimize internal talent, leadership development trends, back-to-basics leadership development, and career […]

In the 1980s, a friend of mine told the people at his company that someday, there would be a computer on every desk. They thought he was crazy. Today, 30 years later, there’s a computer in every pocket. We call it a smart phone. We’re connected to each other and to information sources around the […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about what managers can learn from football coach firings, the culture-career development connection, peer-to-peer learning, […]

Leadership development programs must help developing leaders become better adaptors. Leadership development insights can come from many places.  Boris Groysberg’s article, “What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant,” is an example.  You may remember Groysberg as the person who studied leadership portability. Here’s the money quote from his recent article. “As we took an […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about leadership development on the job, leading from a distance, hot leadership topics for 2019, […]

Leadership development and shade trees have much in common. Both take a long time to deliver their benefits. And the person who starts the process probably won’t be around to enjoy those benefits. Leadership Development Excellence A leader’s career lasts decades. That’s one reason we must build great programs to last. Great programs have two […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about creating a better talent pipeline, questions to ask about developing future leaders, personalized learning, […]

Leadership development starts with recruiting, but it doesn’t stop there. The word “talent” seems to have two meanings these days. One of them is the old meaning about skills or aptitude. But “talent” has become HR jargon for “people.” I thought about that when I read Julie Winkle Giulioni’s excellent post, “Four Mindsets Needed for […]

Leadership development may be the most important thing any company does. That’s why, every week, I review blogs and other publications that cover leadership development to find the very best leadership development posts. From Ron Thomas: Good Managers Aren’t Born. They’re Trained Early How are we preparing our young leaders? This is such an impressionable […]

Leadership development isn’t just for senior managers, and it shouldn’t start in the middle of your corporate org chart. For years, we’ve lavished too much money on senior leaders who don’t need it that much. If we thought about succession planning below the C-suite at all, it didn’t extend very far into middle management, either. […]