When I started out in business, almost fifty years ago, experience was the thing. That made sense when the next year would look quite a bit like today. Markets were relatively stable. Planning five or ten years out was common. Those days are gone. Leadership development for a changing world When the business world 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 top leadership challenges, mid-level talent trends, leadership development for Millennials, and crushing the forgetting […]

Derek Irvine hits the nail squarely on the head in his blog post: “5 Human Truths in the Modern Workplace and How to Address Them.” Here’s the teaser copy. “We are all human. Our workplaces, relationships and interactions need to reflect our humanity to help us all deliver more productively and achieve success together.” Lately, […]

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 the importance of and chronic need for leadership development, what HR leaders need to […]

Leadership development is a military strength One reason the military is good at developing leaders is that they’ve been doing it for a very long time. Another reason is that the stakes are incredibly high: the life and death of people and nations. The third reason is that the world’s top military organizations don’t have […]

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 employee learning, the changing nature of leadership, employee recognition, and the art or science […]

Art Petty asks: “Is leadership changing?” after reading the McKinsey interview with Heidrick & Struggles CEO Tracy Wolstencroft, Art concludes: “for those firms I’ve observed and have worked with, who are effectively reinventing themselves in this era of complexity, there are a number of emerging new themes in how leadership is practiced and deployed.” If […]

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 the right-brain leadership gap, connecting talent with opportunity in the Digital Age, the evolving […]

I was a twenty-year-old Marine standing before the board that would decide whether I would be promoted to Sergeant. The officer in charge was a Major who had started his Marine career as a private. He landed at Iwo Jima and that adventure gave him a scar the started above his hairline and disappeared behind […]

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, what undermines career development satisfaction, why CEOs should “know […]