Imagine you are the V.P. of small-mid-size trucks and SUV division for a U.S. automaker.   While visiting a dealership you see a woman get into her new truck which has just undergone a routine 5000 mile maintenance check.  She carries a laptop and purse on one arm and her one year old child in the other.  She reaches awkwardly across her body [...]

Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, an enormously readable biography of Abraham Lincoln, is also a seminal treatise on leadership and a must-read for all who lead or aspire to do so.  By way of numerous examples the book highlights four essential leadership characteristics: a balance of confidence and humility; command of one’s ego; an intuitive and intimate understanding of [...]

Regardless of how they name it, leadership experts are calling for transformational leadership -”the ability to engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality”  (Burns, 1978).  Few, however, directly identify the cornerstone of transformational leadership - ego development.  
In recent years we have seen [...]