It can be easy to overlook the power of trust and the simple ways it is established. I was reminded of this by a recent post from Leadership Moments, a newsletter put out by Beth Flynn over at the Ohio State University Leadership Center. I am republishing a portion below. If you would like to [...]
In 2010, my colleagues at the Barrett Values Centre drew data from 100 Barrett Values Centre Leadership Values Assessments, a 360-degree leadership development tool, to examine the perceived differences among leaders based on their personal entropy (degree of dysfunction). They recently revisited that data to compare the overall results by gender. They looked at the top values, strengths and areas for [...]
In national values assessments across the globe, people profess to holding values such as "trust" and "accountability" as their core personal values. How then can we live our personal values on a national scale, exhibiting them to the world through our actions? Our research clearly indicates that fear continues to rule. According to the 2011 [...]
Our global leadership crisis has me thinking about the need to develop the leader inside each and every one of us. Leadership development is often reserved for our "best and brightest", the people that have been identified as "high-potential" performers. This practice and philosophy has surely contributed to the widespread state of inept governance and corporate [...]
As a follow-up to my May 14 blog post, my friend John Marshall Roberts has published new research with the Shelton Group that “cracks the code” on the green marketing conundrum: How do you overcome cynicism and skepticism to persuade consumers to buy sustainable products? The research distinguishes three kinds of environmental skeptics and suggests a [...]
Workplaces transform when leaders transform. But how do you inspire transformation? Is there a road map? There is ample evidence that people and collectives (such as workplaces) develop along an evolutionary continuum. Knowing how this happens is essential whether you are developing leaders or workplace cultures. It is much easier to find the next step [...]
John Roberts is a brilliant communicator and author of the book: "Igniting Inspiration, A Persuasion Manual for Visionaries." His recent blog post gives a practical 6-step process for delivering convincing ‘social proof’ for the urgency of sustainable behavior among a mass of mainstream folks who, as of yet, have very few socially similar role models. [...]
It's no secret that the best leaders are a self-disciplined bunch. As Richard Barrett points out in "The New Leadership Paradigm", leading self or self-mastery is the first skill of all leaders. And the very best leaders make self-development and self-mastery a life-long learning project. Patricia Aburdene, author of "MegaTrends 2010" agrees, stating: "The cornerstone [...]
A colleague recently wrote to share that a new online compilation of business school quality lectures has been posted at bschool.com. I have not had time to review them all yet, but noticed that several in the list of 50 included some of the very best videos I have seen on TED. Other featured videos [...]
The world desperately needs a new type of leadership. The time of heroic trailblazing based on sheer strength of will and personal achievement is long past. Yet much of our American success story remains stuck in the "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" thinking. Guy Finley wrote about this recently as a distinction between [...]
