Effective leadership doesn’t require charisma. It requires character and competency.
Most leadership development programs aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. Actually, they might be worse than that.
The winning strategy is this: Be the best at attracting, building, and retaining your team. You can't play without a team.
While today's virtual teams leverage new technology, the underlying principles of what makes that work haven't changed.
Find a simple, but powerful, framework you can use as a tool to assess how your current board is functioning and what it needs to focus on.
As the saying goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Successful leaders surround themselves with successful advisors.
What should you do when faced with two seemingly strong paths? Sometimes, a fast, good decision is superior to a slow, perfect decision.
Scarcity or abundance, your view of each of these may impact how you lead.
Why do leaders get discouraged and distracted? Christian Muntean looks at how to overcome the most common leadership difficulties.
Are you following through? If so, good for you! That places you within a very small club of people who make “it” happen. To stay in it this far, you probably (knowingly or not) did certain things differently than those who haven’t followed through.
Most leaders struggle with getting it all done. Here are three principles that I find to be enormously helpful.
Leaders can be like lighthouses, guiding and directing others during dark, stormy, turbulent times. But they can only do this well if their own light is well-maintained, strong, and bright.
While it is possible to find qualified candidates, there are farther and fewer in between. In fact, I support developing a robust, assertive recruitment strategy. Don’t be shy about choosing it.
Here are some questions that I think are interesting. They help us clarify what we are trying to achieve. I’d encourage you to set aside a few minutes and chew on these. I suspect they’ll give you a different perspective on what you’d like this year to be about.
Personal development is leadership development. Taking care of your body is justified. It is worth the time and effort. It’s an investment, not a luxury. It’s part of how you lead well.
Very rarely do businesses set vision statements that are too small. The tendency is to either have no vision at all or one that is improbably grandiose. Both are errors.
Decisions about ‘letting go’ are often the most difficult ones that I have with my clients. They often struggle with letting go of distracting, unproductive, or damaging cultural or professional practices, team members, goals and dreams, or investments of some kind.
There are many challenges that growing organizations face. But even in the happy land of having all the money and staff you could want, one persistent leadership challenge often remains: the ability to fully trust your team.
As a leader, you need to be numerically literate. You need to provide financial leadership. Even if you aren’t a numbers person.
How do you honor a predecessor’s legacy while leading boldly?
