Leadership development

Skills leaders need today from the professor who wrote the book on leadership.

Set them - and your executives - up for success.

A leader's singular job is to get results. But even with all the leadership training programs and "expert" advice available, effective leadership still...

Travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul. What’s perhaps less well-known is that they’re also good for the company. People who have international experience or identify with more than one nationality are better problem solvers and display more creativity, our research suggests. What’s more, we found that people with […]

People respect selflessness in a leader, and perceive it when they see safety, service, and sacrifice.

Congratulations—you’ve been asked to lead a change initiative! But there’s a catch—its success hinges on the cooperation of several people across your organization over whom you have no formal authority. If you’re like most managers, you’re facing this sort of challenge more often these days because of flatter management structures, outsourcing, and virtual teams. For […]

To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify, develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used […]

The armed services have been in the business of leadership development much longer than the corporate world has. Today's military leaders need tools and...

"My idea is better." "Is not." "If we don't use my idea, I'm not playing!" "Fine, I don't like you anymore." An argument among six-graders in the schoolyard?...

In the realm of executive decision-making, cognitive biases can play a very different role.

A majority of managers just don’t understand what it means to be a leader. That’s a conclusion that I draw from a recent global survey by McKinsey and Company about what it takes to manage corporate performance. Only 48% of managers surveyed believed that they need to inspire and only 46% believed it was their […]

Don't just build your leadership muscle - find new muscles.

Sometimes a major problem is obvious. Sometimes it isn’t.

$4,600. That’s how much less women made than men in their first post-MBA jobs, according to research by Nancy Carter and Christine Silva of Catalyst. And it’s not because women tend to start at lower positions than men — though they do start at lower positions than men, on average, that’s a separate problem. The […]

Do you sometimes feel stuck as a leader, while at other times everything seems effortless? The explanation often lies in your own psychological state....

Your inner critic could be to blame.

Higher interest rates and competition have changed the nature of the business. Now the industry must find a new approach to developing leaders.

How to get better at working with others.

It has to start with buy-in from the top.

People learn more from their peers than from anything else.