Teeth to Tail “Teeth to Tail” is a military term for looking at the ratio of combat soldiers (teeth) to support troops (tail). In the world of business, it would compare the number of people doing the core work of the company with all support staff. Today’s companies are very different from even a few […]

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 succession planning, the leadership development race for client, managing talent in the digital age, […]

There are a few things in life you just can’t “get” until you experience them. Leadership is one of those things. That’s why your leadership development program needs to have a plan for what to do when a new leader just doesn’t work out. Leadership development is a sophisticated guessing game The big leadership development […]

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 book clubs for leadership development, picking executive education courses, workforce planning and leadership development, […]

Fill in the blank. “Young people today aren’t as _____________ we were.” That’s the kind of discussion we were having. Of course not one of us would be counted as a “young person” these days. People our age have always had these discussions about young people. I’m guessing that the hunters around the fire in […]

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 and learning like a gamer, letting go during succession, customizing leadership development, […]

Lately I’ve seen several articles about how the learning part of leadership development needs to change. Stephen J. Gill describes the current situation well in his post “The Self-Directed Learner.” “The most common way in which companies train employees today is basically the same as organizations have been training for the past hundred years (some […]

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 an app to help you find the perfect candidate, getting leadership development right, improving […]

Leadership is changing. So should leadership development. Leadership has focused on one kind of leader for decades. It’s the leader with a permanent leadership position, a boss. Those leaders are still with us, but now we have temporary leaders and emergent leaders, too. Leadership development should serve all three. Leadership development for permanent leaders Permanent […]

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 and neglected talent, leadership development and culture, deliberate practice, and how to […]