For years I thought that the term “coach,” originated in sports. Nope. When I did a little research, I discovered that “coach” originally meant the four-wheeled kind, like a stagecoach. That meaning goes all the way back to the Sixteenth Century. The next specialized meaning comes from Oxford University in the 1830s. Then it was […]

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 mentorship, high potential leadership development, creating a pipeline of global leaders and the importance […]

Back in my corporate period I never heard or used the word “mentor.” Those of us who were “fast trackers,” the term of the day for what we now call “high potentials,” were told to hope for a “rabbi.” A rabbi was a lot like a mentor. He (they were all he’s) was in senior […]

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 separating learning myths from reality, ways to improve leadership development, and four common mistakes […]

What if we chose leaders differently? Here’s the opening from a Washington Post article titled “This CEO lets his workers elect their bosses.” “Americans vote for their president. They vote for their local officials. They vote for aspiring pop stars on television shows. But they do not, in general, vote for who will be their […]

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 two types of high potentials, the leadership journey, 70-20-10 leadership development, and measuring the […]

Stephen J. Gill says we should “Stop Relying on Training for Employee Learning.” Here’s his basic reasoning. “Formal, event-based training (courses, workshops, seminars, MOOCs) has a place in corporate learning but only a small place and only for employee learning that can’t be achieved in other, more timely, less costly, and more effective ways. This […]

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 strategic leadership development, strategic HR, why on-the-job training isn’t working, and setting up a […]

We’ve come a long way. What is now the Thunderbird School of Global Management was founded in 1946 as the American Institute for Foreign Trade. Leadership development for “over there” For years the programs trained college graduates in the skills needed for managing a US company’s interests in a “foreign” country. In 1961, the Institute […]

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 why leadership development programs fail, leadership development outside the box, leadership development beyond training, […]