Becoming a great leader is a constantly evolving journey that never ends. Those who are committed to honing their leadership practice typically spend considerable amounts of time learning about leadership, developing their leadership skills and reflecting on where they can improve. As a result of the Great Resignation, leaders are arguably under greater pressure than […]
How to Get Your Team on Board with a Major Change
Most change management has shifted from a simplistic, top-down, “create a vision, change the structure, roll out the new program, and get buy-in” approach to more emergent, empowered, and purpose-led approaches. But leading big, complex change is still a struggle the rate of failure for transformation projects remains stubbornly high. The authors have seen both […]
Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
Eight years ago, Malnight, Buche, and Dhanaraj launched a study of high growth in companies, looking at three strategies known to drive it: creating new markets, serving broader stakeholder needs, and rewriting the rules of the game. To their surprise, they discovered a fourth driver they hadn’t considered at all: purpose. Companies have long been […]
3 Ways to Boost Retention Through Professional Development
People’s lives and priorities are changing in dramatic ways before our very eyes. While increasing compensation, promoting from within, offering flexible schedules, and making remote work easier are always good talent strategies, there’s one lever leaders can pull that’s highly accessible, doesn’t have to be expensive, and gives employees something they really want: on-the-job professional […]
Are You Ready to Be Coached?
Before you decide to work with an executive coach, assess your readiness to ensure you’ll actually benefit and grow from the experience. Take a look at yourself in the context of seven characteristics of successful coachees. Are you willing to hold yourself accountable for making progress? Are you open to new behaviors and ways of […]
Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?
Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element of doing business. But something else is missing: culture, or the essential elements of how an organization and its employees behave, as well as its governing beliefs and principles. And yet, culture often receives less […]
How Leadership Has Changed Over Generations
Servant leadership is not about giving up who you are as a person. Let me explain. As we transitioned across the generations, with Millennials and now Gen Z entering the workforce, our style of leadership and expectations needed to change. We took classes, read articles, listened to podcasts and took advice from anyone that had […]
The Importance Of Diversity And Inclusion For Today’s Companies
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) enable organizations to be more inclusive of various ideas, cultures, and lifestyles, which improves workplace culture. It helps companies to recruit the top candidates from a diverse, unexplored pool. When you bring people together from all walks of life, it’s amazing what we can accomplish. In this article, author Bernard Tynes […]
Back to Basics: A Classic Treatise on Leadership Reissued by Harvard Business Review
By Kevin O’Donnell Understanding Leadership appeared in the September-October 1961 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Regular readers of the prestigious journal must have been puzzled. Who was W.C.H. Prentice, the author of the piece? Far from being a captain of industry, W.C.H. Prentice was a former professor of psychology who had turned his […]