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 leadership cliches, leadership development problems, accelerating leadership development, and redefining talent. From Georg Vielmetter and Yvonne Sell: Kicking Leadership Clichés “In ‘Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you […]

I loved Sally Helgesen’s article, “Why ‘Leadership’ Isn’t Just for Leaders Anymore.” Here’s the money quote. “But in today’s lean and fast-shifting environment, where the spread of information and networked technologies have broken down hierarchies and eroded silos, people at every level need to make decisions.” That’s a work in progress. We’re way past the […]

The best leaders are humble. Jeanine Prime and Elizabeth Salib include this research finding in their HBR article, “The Best Leaders Are Humble Leaders.” “In a survey of more than 1500 workers from Australia, China, Germany, India, Mexico, and the U.S., we found that when employees observed altruistic or selfless behavior in their managers — […]

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 what to do when training doesn’t work, leadership branding, promoting from within, and your HiPo program. From Charles Jennings: What Does the Training Department Do When Training […]

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 blog posts about succession planning, leadership development and hierarchies and leadership development failings. From Chief Executive: A Strong Succession Plan Leads to Strong Success “Having a clear succession plan […]

Leadership development is something General Electric is known for. For more than a century, they’ve been growing effective leaders inside the company. People want to know the secret. That prompted a recent post by Raghu Krishnamoorthy, GE’s vice president of executive development and chief learning officer, titled: “The Secret Ingredient in GE’s Talent-Review System.” Here’s […]

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 what you’re reading, the performance conversation, hiring criteria, and GE’s secret. From Neil Bearden: Do You Think You’re Reading Brain Food “Are we being intellectually nourished by […]

When I started in business, computers were giant boxes that lived in air conditioned rooms and were guarded by a priesthood called Management Information Systems (MIS). We used our computers to do the same accounting things we’d always done, only faster. The Promise of Analytics in Leadership Development Those days came flooding back when I […]