Category: Leadership

View original / inc.com After more than seven years of training CEOs, Jim Schleckser explains what separates the most effective business leaders from their weaker peers. Jim Schleckser has been an entrepreneur for the last 20 years, and for the last seven he's been imparting his leadership acumen to other entrepreneurs as part of the …

Continue reading "How Effective CEOs Spend Their Time by John McDermott"

View Original / Fast Company The first thing Tom Kolditz wants you to know about leaders is that most of them didn’t emerge from diapers to direct teams naturally. "If you look at the research done, the qualities leaders were born with, [such as] intelligence and attractiveness, account for 30 percent of leadership," says the retired brigadier …

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View Original / Inc.com Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up …

Continue reading "What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day BY KEVIN PURDY"

blogs.hbr.org / view original DeM Banter:  Many thoughts from this short article... Cultural empathy? Or is American arrogance?  Is there a place for both?  Is there an arrogance at all?  Agree on the education piece...but is this a pendulum  that swings between the arts and hard sciences? Is it economy based? Things to ponder today...  There's a difference …

Continue reading "Why America Lacks Global Leaders by Bronwyn Fryer"

DeM Banter: Guest curation from John Knight...thank you for the article... tons to think about here.  Strong piece I will have to pull apart many times over.   FEBRUARY 29, 2000 Philosopher Peter Koestenbaum poses the truly big questions: How do we act when risks seem overwhelming? What does it mean to be a successful …

Continue reading "Do You Have the Will to Lead? BY POLLY LABARRE"

view original / inc.com Exposure to nonstop negativity actually impairs brain function. Here's how to defend yourself. Do you hate it when people complain? It turns out there's a good reason: Listening to too much complaining is bad for your brain in multiple ways, according to Trevor Blake, a serial entrepreneur and author of Three Simple Steps: A …

Continue reading "Listening to Complainers Is Bad for Your Brain by Minda Zetlin"

view original / forbes.com DeM Banter:  Can I shout out an Amen!  But at the end of the article I am still left looking for more...an answer, a way forward, but perhaps that in and of itself is the answer...hummm.  Answers, thoughts, statements, questions, are most appreciated. We make a living by what we get; we make …

Continue reading "The Key Missing Ingredient In Leadership Today by Steve Denning"

View Original / HBR We all know bad managers — be they ambitious and aggressive, doing whatever it takes to move up the corporate ladder, or the opposite: managers thrust into their position without the skill or the will to do the job properly. I continue to be a little puzzled about why so many managers …

Continue reading "The Seven Deadly Sins of Management by Julian Birkinshaw"