Essay on Leadership

Regardless of the company size, a successful leader has a certain skillset to make her stand apart from others.I’ve had the opportunity to work at a Fortune 50 company and a 3-year-old startup, and I’ve found that success at each one is driven by the …

With the election looming and the two most disliked presidential candidates in history vying for the office, I find myself contemplating a topic I used to teach many years ago: Leadership. In the course of the developing that course I did extensive research reading literally dozens of …

Usually when you first hear about a entrepreneur it's for what their company has done. When I first heard about , it wasn’t about his business savvy or what he had done; it was about his love for cookies.More specifically, the #cookielife, an oddball movement …

When considering the most important thinkers in the study of organizational management, influencers such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. are at the top of the list. But there’s a new practitioner whose mind-opening methodology delivers a wallop that will knock the …

Leaders with coercive personalities are plentiful and destructive.Toshiba's CEO Hisao Tanaka quit over the . Volkswagen's CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned in the . And Third Avenue Management's CEO David Barse was escorted from the building over a .Each of these CEOs had forceful personalities, which intimidated coworkers. Coercive leadership behavior deters transparency; kills self-reliance and …

As the ™ expands across the nation, most leaders lack the readiness to see diversity and inclusion as a profit center rather than a traditional cost center. In fact, many believe that . Leaders are becoming less relevant as their businesses lose their competitive advantage …

In a recent with my friend and mentor Dr. Robert Cooper, he shared something that really hit home with me: "We live in a tiny corner of our possibility as human beings," he told me. "The good news is, the brain doesn't get it. The …

Questions What are the elements of John Macky’s leadership? John Macky’s leadership in Whole Foods has been participative wherein the relationship between him and his employees are that of trust, open communication and performance. Macky’s leadership at best is very far from the traditional concept …

What makes a good leader is the use of effective management skills such as spending 50 percent or more of their time listening carefully.Great leaders understand that some of the best leadership qualities entail listening to others with undivided attention.When was the last time you …

Mike Krzyzewski, or as he’s more commonly called, is much taller in person than he looks on TV.I guess that’s because the coach of Duke’s multiple champion men’s basketball team and ’s gold medal men’s basketball team wasn’t surrounded by 6-foot-11-inch super athletes at the time …