Usually a survey of managers about what they think they do and a survey of workers about what managers actually do yield wildly different results. Not this time. Human Resource Executive (7/24/14) reported on a CNN survey that asked people what characterized the best bosses. Here are the top three things. Respect and appreciate their […]

I’ve been reading posts like China Gorman’s “The Urgency of Leadership Development” and the Training Journal’s “Leadership development top priority for 2014.” They make it seem like, all of a sudden, top management has realized that leadership development is important. Great. The problem is that we’ve heard all this before. What companies usually do is […]

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 psychometric testing, tomorrow’s CEOs, growing lean leaders from within, and 2014 as the year […]

Developing winners The German team that won the 2014 World Cup in Brazil was the result of a development system that Germany revamped starting fourteen years ago. In his article “Germany’s World Cup triumph a victory for intelligent design,” Barney Ronay of the Guardian calls the new system “the most perfectly calibrated, most relentlessly first-world […]

Millennials and Leadership The third annual Deloitte Millennial Survey 2014 includes the following: “Organizations must nurture emerging leaders. Over one in four Millennials are ‘asking for a chance’ to show their leadership skills. Additionally, 75 percent believe their organizations could do more to develop future leaders.” So, there you are with Millennials pouring into your […]