Leadership

Outstanding leaders make sure every team member sees the vision of what they are building together and how each person is making an important contribution. How do you know if your people feel connected?

The demands of planning, organizing, scheduling, producing, and measuring can leave managers with little time to develop so-called soft skills.

All leaders make mistakes. Most important decisions have to do with developing and deploying talent. Do our people feel engaged and committed? Here are some tips for avoiding people mistakes.

We may hold some faulty paradigms about leadership that keep us from reaching our potential. Here's the truth.

Are graduated levels—a chain of command—in the organizational chart helpful or hurtful? How does hierarchy meld with the notion of the leader as servant? Or, should an organization seeking to infuse servant leadership into its culture flatten itself like a pancake run over by a diesel road roller?

Rather than retread Lord Acton’s famous but shopworn quote, I will use my wife’s less-known but equally insightful proverb: “Power makes people go absolutely crazy!”