VUCA 2.0: A Strategy For Steady Leadership In An Unsteady World

In a 1998 report designed to train officers for the twenty-first century, the United States War College presaged a world that is “volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous” —VUCA, for short. VUCA describes perfectly what is happening in the global business world today.

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The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails

Over the years, I’ve observed just about every type of leadership development program on the planet. And the sad thing is, most of them don’t even come close to accomplishing what they were designed to do – build better leaders.

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21 Quotes From Henry Ford On Business, Leadership And Life

I knew, before starting to write this post, what we all know about Henry Ford: founder of Ford Motor Company, seminal proponent of mass production in the form of the assembly line, creator of the Model T and author of the tart line, "you can have it in any color you want, as long as it is black.

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6 Ways Effective Listening Can Make You A Better Leader

When employees say they want their voices to be heard, they are really saying they want leaders who will not just hear them, but really listen to them.

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The Only True Leadership Is Values-Based Leadership

My students told me time and again, “You should write a book!” Finally one of them handed me a transcript of my lectures that he had done and suggested I use it as a start.

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Five Qualities To Improve To Be An Effective Leader

Leadership is not about the title. It’s about whether someone is following you. Leadership is about who you’re being, rather than what you’re doing. What does it take to be a real leader? Being a leader forces us to make tough decisions every day.

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What’s The Surprising Leadership Lesson In The COVID-19 Crisis?

As we move through this coronavirus crisis – doing meetings by video chat with our kids and pets in the background or our laps, caring less about how we look on camera or the backgrounds we show – we are increasing our appreciation for authenticity, communication, trust, relationships, verifiabl

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10 Signs That a Company Has a Serious Culture Problem

This article is by Shane Atchison, the global chief executive of Possible, a digital global advertising agency (Twitter: @shanePOSSIBLE). Looking for a job? It always surprises me how few people interviewing at my company ask about our culture. But they should.

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How a CEO who successfully navigated the Great Recession is facing the coronavirus

Former Honeywell CEO David Cote applies Great Recession leadership lessons to the coronavirus's economic impact.

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Navigating Leadership And Managing Exceptions In A Crisis

Chief Operating Officer of ConnectALL, a software value stream management company. As we near the end of 2020 amid a global pandemic, business leaders are scrambling to navigate what appears to have become “the perpetual new normal.

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Life And Leadership Lessons From Liz Elting

Liz Elting, Founder and CEO of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation and is a force. Liz is the founder and former Co-CEO of TransPerfect, the world’s largest translation company, appearing on Forbes’ list of “Richest Self-Made Women” every year since its inception.

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The Dark Side Of Authentic Leadership

Contrary to popular belief, effective leaders are rarely authentic, and authentic leaders can be brutally ineffective. While we hate to admit it, the ability to fake it is a critical ingredient of leadership potential.

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How To Support ERGs And Create Inclusive Leadership In Your Workforce

I always feel the need to check in with people (Reader: Are you doing ok? Are you well? Pour yourself a cup of tea, please) or to begin all posts with “there’s a lot going on in the world right now”. The truth is, we can all use a cup of tea and a pause on the madness of our news cycles.

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The Three Key Ingredients Of Leadership You Need

When even a Stanford University professor like Jeffrey Pfeffer concludes that “the leadership industry has failed,” some critics are tempted to ditch the whole idea of leadership, as so much overblown nonsense. This would be a mistake.

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5 Mental Hangups That Are Keeping You From A Leadership Position

Most of us have read popular business book prescriptions about becoming better leaders. The latest preach becoming more vulnerable, having more grit and acquiring greater empathy.

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Reclaiming Leadership In The Age Of Agile

In a world with too many disengaged, dissatisfied, and disaffected employees, as well as bumbling governments unable to deal with destabilizing change, and too many people putting misplaced trust in populist leaders, it’s sad to note that even leadership experts concede that the multi-billion-doll

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Effective Hybrid Team Leadership: The New Performance Factor For Successful Companies

Variations in employee circumstances, preferences or requirements within the same workforce could lead to the rise of Hybrid Teams, which are teams in which some members work in the one co-located workplace while others work remotely.

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Free Leadership? Speaking Fees, Representative Boards And The Commodification Of Neurodiversity

Last week at the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, the talks involved a blended representation of lived experience and professional practice. The speakers included Judy Singer, the Australian Sociologist, Siena Castellon and myself, three women from different generations bring a blend of expertise.

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This Is Cuomo’s Moment—And It Offers Essential Leadership Lessons

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo may not be a perfect leader, but he is perfect for his primary job these days: inspiring confidence and cooperation in citizens in New York and beyond amidst a global coronavirus pandemic.

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Leadership Lessons from India

The leaders of India’s biggest and fastest-growing companies take an internally focused, long-term view and put motivating and developing employees higher on the priority list than short-term shareholder interests.

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15 Tips for Instilling Leadership Skills in Children

Many leaders also serve as parents, happily balancing a daily workload with ball games and family dinners. Along the way, most of these leader-parents also realize the influence they have over young minds.

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Here's Why Wyndham Worldwide Just Bought La Quinta

It’s been an ongoing trend for hotels recently—consolidation. On Thursday, Wyndham said it would purchase La Quinta’s franchise and management business for roughly $1.95 billion, including $715 million for assumed debt.

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What Is Open (and Closed) on Presidents' Day 2019

Presidents’ Day is a federal holiday that was originally created to honor the nation’s first president, George Washington. The day, which now honors all U.S. presidents, happens every third Monday in February.

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The reward for good pandemic leadership: Lessons from Jacinda Ardern’s New Zealand reelection

The recent reelection of the Jacinda Ardern-led Labour government in New Zealand offers leaders elsewhere a potent lesson about how best to respond to COVID-19. Saving lives is, not surprisingly, a real vote-winner. Ardern’s Oct. 17 victory was a record-breaking landslide.

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What the pushback of military leaders against President Trump can teach us about leadership

When someone thinks the boss is doing something wrong, the options are quit, or stay and try to make things better.

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Baxter International CEO on reopening and leadership during social unrest

​José Almeida says it's a "privilege" to be a CEO.

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The coronavirus pandemic may be a turning point for responsible business

In the coronavirus climate, a company coming to society’s rescue without enriching itself is a solid bet.

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Half of us have quit our job because of a bad boss

A new Gallup study released Thursday sheds new light on worker-manager relationships, finding that about 50% of the 7,200 adults surveyed left a job "to get away from their manager.

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These Are the Women CEOs Leading Fortune 500 Companies

Female CEOs in the Fortune 500 aren't quite the norm yet, but they have been making strides. As of 2017, there are 32 female CEOs on the list, meaning that 6.4% of the U.S.'s biggest companies (by revenue) are run by women.

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Port Neches Explosion: Three Injured In Texas Chemical Plant Blast

Topline: An explosion erupted at a Texas Petroleum Chemical plant in the early hours of Wednesday morning, injuring three people, with the impact blowing out the windows and doors of homes nearby.

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What Antarctica Can Teach Us About Leadership And Genuine Conversation

Dr. James McClintock is one of the world’s leading voices when it comes to Antarctica and how climate change is transforming its unparalleled landscape. He’s made such an impact that an Antarctic peninsula—McClintock Point—has been named after him! Today, Dr.

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Former NFL Kicker Martin Gramatica Busy In Tampa Helping Military Veterans, Calling Buccaneers Games

Martin Gramatica was nine years old when he and his family arrived in LaBelle, Fla. from Argentina in 1985. It did not take him long to discover the many differences between the United State and the country he left behind.

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Shocking New Maps Show How Sea Level Rise Will Destroy Coastal Cities By 2050

A new Climate Central research report released this week finds hundreds of millions more people than previously known live on land at risk from coastal flooding linked to climate change. The largest vulnerable populations are most heavily in Asia.

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Las Vegas mayor calls for casinos to reopen and residents to be coronavirus 'control group'

Carolyn Goodman told CNN's Anderson Cooper that Las Vegas casinos should reopen even as the COVID-19 threat persists.

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Lessons From 4 Exceptional Leaders On How To Inspire Teams During Covid-19

Exceptional leadership during prosperous and tranquil times is important, but it often gets overlooked. It’s during major crises that exceptional leaders stand out from others.

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A Trip To Virginia Beach Showed Why We Aren’t Beating This Virus

My family lives in Northern Virginia, and we took a trip to Virginia Beach to see the town, experience the wonders of the ocean again, and just spend some time out of the house. In terms of sights, experiences, food, and more, we got all we could ask for.

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More Than Cheer

More Than Cheer is all about using cheerleading to empower our girls (and boys) to become the best versions of themselves! We have programs for all ages, ability levels, and we don’t subscribe to the “typical” cheerleading stereotypes.

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Leadership lessons unlearned by those we elect

The Arizona Nurses Association urges the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and other local officials to keep mask orders in place.

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Leadership lessons unlearned by those we elect

The Arizona Nurses Association urges the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and other local officials to keep mask orders in place.

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Innovative Leadership In Three Steps

In 2006, 50% of mobile phones globally had the word Nokia emblazoned on the front. Then all of a sudden, in January 2007, Steve Jobs walked onto a stage and pulled an iPhone out of his pocket and the world was forever changed.

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10 practical leadership lessons from Steve Jobs

Focus: eliminate distractions. Simplify everything. Take responsibility. If you fall behind, take a leap forward. Everyone knows Steve Jobs ; or, at least, they know of its existence. Or, of the innovations he made in the world of technology.

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The World’s 19 Most Disappointing Leaders

The past year or so has produced an avalanche of bungles, failures, and questionable decisions among CEOs and politicians—many so distinctive or outsize that they merit special acknowledgement. Michigan Gov. Rick SnyderPhotograph by Al Goldis — AP Images

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There Are 2 Extreme Leadership Styles. Knowing Which Way You Lean Can Propel Business

Leaders have a natural style they use to hold others accountable. What's yours?

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Be. Do. Say. The Foundation Of Authentic, Trusted Leadership

In their town, deep in the last century, the paramedics and emergency medical technicians that staffed the life squad’s ambulance were volunteers. They were on call for twelve-hour shifts and carried beepers so they could be summoned whatever they were doing.

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Five Ways High Achievers Can Eliminate Overwhelm And Get Un-Stuck

You are on your way to an abundant life, enthusiastically checking every box on your to-do list, and you unexpectedly become stuck. You try your usual tricks to free yourself, but this time nothing works.

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Embodied Leadership: A Cure For What Ails Us?

“Oops, we created a small country,” Mark Walsh messaged in reference to The Embodiment Conference he founded, a free online conference running for the rest of this week, involving a thousand teachers of embodiment across ten different channels, including business and leadership.

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Criticized By Trump And Others, Can Liz Cheney Help Make The Republican Party Great Again?

This week Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) was confronted by several members of the Republican House caucus for praising Dr. Anthony Fauci and distancing herself from President Trump. On Thursday, the President piled on as well.

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How To Use The Barbell Strategy For Thought Leadership

CEO of iResearch Services, a global end-to-end thought leadership company that focuses on evidence-based research and insight-led content. When thinking about marketing investments, CMOs often turn to content strategy and the latest trends in “thought leadership.

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Machine Learning And Organizational Change At Southern California Edison

Analytics are typically viewed as an exercise in data, software and hardware. However, if the analytics are intended to influence decisions and actions, they are also an exercise in organizational change.

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