Leadership development in hope and myth Leadership development is about preparing men and women to lead organizations both now and in the future. We’re not exactly sure what the future will be, so, by gosh, we’re going to equip future leaders with every possible skillset. They will be masters of communication and crisis management. They […]

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 most HR data is bad, people analytics, who leaders need to be, and […]

Leadership development is not immune from the hype. The latest “magical” cure-all for whatever ails your company is Big Data. Here’s one recent statement about how this will work: “we want to ensure that we make decisions around employee selection, development and separation based on criteria that we know matters – because we have correlated […]

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 defining and identifying high potentials, succession planning in family firms, and top trends in […]

In their paper, “Learning Agility: A Construct Whose Time has Come,” Kenneth P. De Meuse, Guangrong Dai, and George S. Hallenbeck, of Korn Ferry summarize their case this way. “The willingness and capability to learn from experience and subsequently to apply that learning to perform successfully under new or first-time conditions becomes one of 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 developing leaders in context, leadership development outside the box, fixing the top workforce development […]

Leadership development is about more than the C-Suite Once upon a time it may have made good sense to think about leadership development for a select few and succession planning for the top few levels of the organization. Those times are gone. Today’s high velocity knowledge economy puts a premium on leadership at all levels. […]

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 personal, instructor-led training will never completely go away, when high IQ is a […]

Where should you put your leadership development resources? If you want to get the most profitability bang for your development buck, where should you put your money? I nominate frontline supervisors. As a group they have more to do with the engagement and performance of workers than any other group. In his excellent book, Good […]

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 building performance capability, the CEO’s biggest ally for building a top executive team, selecting […]