Leadership in This Moment: Listen Deeply, Unite Widely, Act Boldly

If you’re feeling anxious about current events, you’re paying attention. People everywhere have rarely experienced this level of collective emotions. Months of intense uncertainty have been compounded for many by feeling isolated at home.

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It's All About The Workplace Leadership Lessons Taught By COVID-19

COVID-19 proves to be a leveler in the workplace. There are terror, confusion, and fatigue all around. Situations have changed overnight. The speed in which the pandemic has affected the workplaces are beyond imagination. But, leaders continue to inspire and motivate.

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Commentary : Purpose, or ‘purpose washing’? A crossroads for business leaders

Fortune and McKinsey & Co. gathered 45 top CEOs to discuss how companies can move beyond profit and generate positive results for society.

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What Is The True Meaning Of Leadership?

What does leadership mean to you? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. What does leadership mean to you?

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What Kamala Harris’s Leadership Means For Young Women Of Color

This week, Kamala Harris made history as the first woman — and the first woman of color — to be elected Vice President of the United States. Whether you agree with her politics or not, this is an important milestone for women.

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CVS Health Names New CEO, Increasing Female Leadership Of S&P 500 Companies

CVS Health on Friday announced Karen S. Lynch will be promoted to CEO in February — which will make Lynch one of a few women to lead a S&P 500 company.

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Here’s Why Democrats Suddenly Feel Confident They Can Turn Texas Blue

Flipping Texas would turn the current Electoral College map on its head, as the state holds 38 electors, the second most in the country behind California (55).

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Pro-Trump Trucks Tried Running Biden Bus ‘Off The Road,’ Campaign Says

Cole cited Travis County Democratic Party Chair Katie Naranjo, who alleged the Trump supporters “followed the Biden bus throughout central Texas” and “ran into a person's car, yelling curse words and threats,” along with photos of a damaged car, while Texas State Rep.

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What Playing for a National Championship-Winning Basketball Team Taught This CEO About Leadership

March Madness always ends, but the lessons every player learns on the court—from incredible victories to bitter defeats—will stay far beyond their college basketball careers. Just envision the camaraderie, commitment to excellence and sheer determination these men experience as young athletes.

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The Dutch Approach To Crisis Leadership

A crisis such as the corona crisis asks for strong leadership. What counts as “strong” and how leaders respond to the crisis differs tremendously between countries—and between leaders.

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Election Week And The Most Needed Leadership Quality Nobody Talks About

Yamaoka Tesshu, a renowned 19th century Zen master and sword master, was asked by another swordsman to teach him the secret of the highest stage of swordsmanship. As recounted in Zen and Budo, Tesshu told him the secret was “entrusted to the Asakusa Kannon.

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Three Leadership Skills Necessary For Managing Remote Employees

VP of Business Development at AdAction, driving growth and development through performance marketing solutions. Leadership isn't something that only happens in an office. Rather, leadership is really about the culture, environment and space you create among team members.

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7 Harsh Truths That Will Improve Your Leadership Skills Overnight

Remember those old and scratchy vinyl records that would skip and play the same thing over and over until you moved the needle? (I know I'm showing my age, play along.)

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Some Business & Leadership Lessons From Past Presidents

Some business and leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson: Temperament is the great separator.

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Women To Watch In The Race For The Senate

35 seats in the 100-member chamber are up for grabs in 2020. Just a handful of those races will determine the Senate majority.

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You Are Not The Leader You Think You Are: What We Can Learn From The Leadership Styles In The US Election

Like me, you will have been watching the US election. It has significant meaning for me. Professionally half of my business operates and comes from there. More personally I have family and deep connections there. I care about the US and what happens next.

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10 Ways to Step Up Your Leadership Today

No matter who you are, or the type of company you oversee, there are some universal ways you can be better at it.

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Closing Argument: Joe Biden And The Case For Optimistic Leadership

In the final days of his campaign, Joe Biden is doing what political candidates rarely do – he is staying away from ceaseless mudslinging at his opponent and an avalanche of negative ads.

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Building AI Brain Trust: What Leadership Skills Are Needed To Accelerate AI Adoption?

AI is advancing in visibility but the last mile of realizing AI sustaining adoption in large enterprises, with demonstrated results, is lagging.

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What Kind Of Leaders Do People Want To Follow?

Consumers of leadership are changing their preferences, potentially more than they have in the last 60 years. In less than a week, we will conclude one of the most extensive leadership stocktaking exercises in modern U.S. history.

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Land O' Lakes CEO wants a New Deal approach to rural broadband

Land O' Lakes CEO Beth Ford and HP CEO Enrique Lores agree that closing the digital divide will require an updated version of Franklin Roosevelt's Rural Electrification Act.

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‘We’re all learning real-time’ : How GM CEO Mary Barra is being patient—but concrete—about being more inclusive

After taking several concrete steps to make GM more inclusive, "we're going to continue to make progress," CEO Mary Barra said at Fortune’s virtual Most Powerful Women Summit. "But this is a journey that we're beginning."

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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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