Political leaders on the campaign trail, would do well to take a page from the corporate leaders’ playbook. Walk the Talk. Lead now, as you say you will when, and if, you win.
Dear CEO: What’s your 400 year business plan? You don’t have one? Things would be very different if you did.
As a leader new to your current role, you encounter would-be seducers, lining up to play the game of organizational politics. What to do?
Marissa Mayer is the first pregnant CEO of a major company, that we know of. With this news, we have the opportunity to re-think the boundary between work and life, Drawing the line with dashes, to achieve greater permeability, will serve us better in a variety of ways. It will even light the spark of innovation more readily.
Once upon a time I worked in a forward thinking company. Diversity was a hot and much discussed topic well before it was lukewarm anywhere
Over my career as a consultant, advisor and coach to leaders, I’ve been asked many times, “What do you consider the most important leadership qualities?” Important character traits, not competencies, top my list. Find out what they are and discover how to hone in on them like a laser beam.
Bob Diamond, former CEO Barclays, swats away the questions, as he testifies before a sub-committee of the British Parliament. You can read the subtitles here.
I was not having it all, when Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, caused an uproar. When I stopped having the travel part of IT ALL, I had time to write that the real question is how to change the gender based determination of which ITs men can have and which ones women can have, and offer two solutions.
She works hard to keep the words held tightly inside. Sometimes it seems they are going to leap off her tongue, but she seals her lips, On occasion, if you look closely, you will see that her lips open, just a hair’s width, as if she might let the words out, as if she actually wants to put them outside her mouth and into the room, but she has no breath with which to push them beyond her teeth.
Dear Leader:
As we begin our journey together, I thought it a good idea to let you know what I would most appreciate from you. I hope you do not think it is too bold of me to speak so directly and honestly to you from the start.
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