Leadership development programs often ignore the most critical transition in a leader’s career. When a person gets “promoted” from individual contributor to manager, too many companies treat it like just another day at the office. Oh, sure, we may provide a little training (sometimes). Maybe there will be a heart-to-heart talk with the new leader […]

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 micro-learning, leadership development and organizational change, convincing the C-Suite to make learning a priority, […]

Leadership development is changing rapidly. One reason is the development of technologies that make new things possible. David Creelman writes about one of them on the SABA blog in his article: “What Does It Take to Deliver Slow, Cumulative Learning?” Here’s a key quote. “Micro-learning makes it easy to spread out small chunks of learning […]

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 aiming high in leadership development, talent strategy, a framework for managers to use when […]

Leadership development is not the same as writing a novel. Super-author Stephen King advises novel writers to “leave out the boring parts.” That’s the opposite of what you want if you want to develop leaders. Those thoughts fired off in my brain while I was reading Jack Zenger’s great article, “How Some Companies Are Aiming […]

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 how to become more useful to leaders, successful leadership transitions, mindsets for successful leadership […]

Leadership development is important enough to claim CEO attention. This past weekend, I read a provocative article in the McKinsey Quarterly by Amy Edmondson and Bror Saxberg. It was “Putting lifelong learning on the CEO agenda.” Here’s a quote that caught my eye. “As a senior leader, then, you have to rethink how to continuously […]

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 agile leadership development and what to do when your bread and butter skills don’t […]

Leadership development is changing to catch up with the changes in the world and the workplaces. One of the buzzwords of the day is “agility.” That sounds good, even if we don’t seem to have clear and consistent agreement on what agility is, why it’s good or how it’s different. Many pundits are content to […]

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  posts. This week, you’ll find pointers to posts about problems with leadership development, a leadership lesson from the Rolling Stones, leadership development trends, and putting […]