When a leading research team began tracking results of privately held industry companies, a great deal of data was collected, analyzed, and compared. They began to look for patterns of performance ...

Organizations are all facing the challenge of staying relevant in the face of today's ever-changing business landscape. From the evolving digitization of products, workforce challenges or the use of ...

Leadership is more than a title; it's a set of actions and qualities that inspire others and drive collective success. Over three decades of working with world-class companies, I've observed ...

My consulting business keeps me busy with a diverse group of business owners and senior managers who strive to become more effective at leading their organizations. As a college instructor to ...

Of all the leadership theories available, transformational leadership is a uniquely effective way for leaders to inspire followers to perform better and work harder. Introduced in 1978 by James Burns, ...

A team is only as great as its leader. Discover the core traits of effective leaders that you should be striving for. Great leaders inspire teams through visionary thinking, empathy, emotional ...

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Leaders are born, not made.” But in my years as a C-level executive, I’ve found that this represents a rather deterministic viewpoint about leadership, suggesting that the ...

Over the course of my career, I have been incredibly fortunate to lead engineering organizations of all sizes and specialties. Whether it was a platoon of 30 parachute-borne combat engineers, U.S.

Leadership is one of the most investigated areas of business management and for many years, one leadership style has been explored more than the others—transformational leadership. Tradition tells us ...

Here is a TED Talk by Simon Sinek, the third most-watched, on what makes a great leader a great leader. The bottom line is "why" comes first because it motivates and connects to human concerns. "What" ...

My parents were very intentional with my upbringing. Although they were strict like many African parents of their generation, they ensured I was surrounded with the right materials and routine that ...