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Avoiding the High Cost of Executive Mis-Fits

…rts indicate the individual’s level of risk for 10 factors associated with leadership derailment. A description of the behavioral and leadership implications for each factor, based on the person’s score, is also included in the report. An example follows: Factor name/description: Excitable – Overly enthusiastic and easily disappointed Risk Level: High Behavioral Implications: Intense energetic, volatile and sometimes explosive; may quit when frust…

August 21, 2009 4 Comments

NOW LEADERSHIP – The Wave Has Hit Shore – June 2011

…o be able to do it.” Thinking about work places led me to think more about leadership. What is good leadership? What kind of leadership is possible at a university? What would it mean to make a university into a good workplace? What kind of implications would this have for women? As VP of Research I’m now in a position to influence thinking on leadership and the work environment. I’m pushing for new kinds of arguments. Social justice is important,…

June 30, 2011 1 Comment

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360 Leadership Assessments: What They Really Tell Us

…ding on the instrument. I often use the Emotional Competence Inventory and Leadership Versatility Index. On the former peers offer the lowest ratings, so much so that the instruments makes a statistical adjustment in peer ratings. Direct reports provide the highest ratings of the Leadership Versatility Index. The boss, customers and others rarely offer the lowest ratings. Why? Boss – Successful impression management aka “Managing up”; and if the b…

December 30, 2014 No Comments

How to Commit Leadership Suicide

…icial vote of confidence. Scott’s earlier work on management style, with a leadership psychologist, seems to have paid off. (Note to self: Leadership psychologist was paid $144,000. Raise fees.) Leaders, however, also need to manage up and out. When things don’t work as they’re supposed do, The People get angry. Leaders, especially political leaders, usually find someone to blame. That someone gets fired or is asked to step down. The People feel b…

February 17, 2015 No Comments

Shame Holds Leaders Back – How to Heal Shame

…coaching engagement. Marty highlighted the changes he was seeing in Ken’s leadership. Ken’s peers and direct reports also noted these changes and talked with Marty about the increasingly positive impact Ken was having. The review was going well. Later in the conversation Marty asked Ken what he was doing to develop his successor and explained that Ken’s peers all had plans in place. What happened next came out of left field. Ken bolted upright in…

May 10, 2017 1 Comment

One Great Leadership Question that Changes the World

…ing. “Why don’t you ask him, what are your greatest aspirations? One great leadership question There it is. One great leadership question in 5 simple words. Leaders Answer the Great Leadership Question I’ve been asking clients about their greatest aspirations. One of the conversations appears below. Coach: How many people work directly for you? Leader: I have 10 direct reports. Coach: How many additional people in the organization are indirectly a…

December 15, 2017 No Comments

Generous Leadership Works Better

…hip Two vignettes demonstrate the difference between open hearted generous leadership and closed hearted leadership. Stephanie People like working for Stephanie. Three years into her role, she won the company’s Best Workplace Culture award. She is especially strong in the areas of employee engagement and developing people. Her employees say she helps them solve problems versus solving problems for them. She gives of herself generously. She manages…

September 28, 2017 No Comments

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership – Unexpected ROI

…Leaders in other functions took note. Emotional intelligence became a core leadership competence at Apex. Emotionally Intelligent Leadership – Unexpected ROI When Dan moved into a new role four years ago, the changes he implemented lived on. The sales organization continued to assess and coach high potential leaders for emotional intelligence. They’re doing so now, after Dan’s retirement. I hope he takes pride in his legacy and the unexpected ROI…

July 19, 2017 No Comments

The Mother of All Leadership Blind Spots

…and set people free to do their work. Why You Don’t See The Mother of All Leadership Blind Spots Mother of all leadership blind spots Try as you might, you can’t see the back of your head. Dual mirrors at the right angles solve this problem. Try as you might you can’t see your own blind spots – patterns of thinking and behaving visible to others but not to you. Feedback from the right people solves this problem. If you don’t know the back of your…

January 17, 2019 No Comments

The NOW Leadership Carnival – Premier Edition

…Equation claims that the popular media presents false images of effective leadership as being either masculine or feminine. She believes effectiveness is dictated by the situation not by gender. Read Leadership Integrates Both Genders Cherry Woodburn at Borderless Thinking takes issue, to put it mildly, against Washington Post Kathleen Parker’s depiction of President Obama as displaying feminine, and clearly less than desirable, leadership traits…

September 15, 2010 13 Comments