Restoring the Soul of Business – Staying Human In The Age of Data – Rishad Tobaccowala
If you think you can benefit from straightforward advice you should read this book…..! This book is packed with ideas that leaders can use to improve themselves as individuals and as leaders.[1] Tobaccowala divides his ideas into three sections: The Challenge: Carbon-Based Analog, Feeling Human in a Silicon-Infused, Digital, Data-Driven World Counterbalancing Machines, Screens, and […]
Survival Skills from the CEOs of Nike & UPS – Gary Burnison
Gary Burnison is CEO of Korn Ferry and the author of Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve “In my career, I used to think, ‘I can’t communicate if I don’t have the answers.’ By definition, in periods of uncertainty, we don’t have the answers.” John Donahoe, President and CEO of Nike, summed up the […]
Michelle Obama’s 2020 Democratic National Convention Speech
The following speech by former U.S.”First Lady,” Michelle Obama, was made at the virtual Democratic Convention on August 17, 2020. While it is an explicitly political speech, urging votes for Joe Biden, it is also a speech that lays out the criteria of great leadership, focusing on the essential leadership quality of empathy — not […]
Women Score Higher Than Men in Most Leadership Skills – Jack Zenger & Joseph Folkman, Harvard Business Review
For the first time in history, a major political party in the United States has several women who have declared their candidacy to be their party’s presidential nominee. But TV pundits have been questioning whether, despite the progress indicated by the huge influx of women elected into Congress last fall, the U.S. is ever going […]
For Many Workers There’s A Key Question Employers Should Be Asking – Todd Connor & Emily Drake
There are ways for leaders to cultivate the compassion our workplaces need right now! Todd Connor: We’ve been talking this week about the elevated consideration we have now—an expectation, really—for compassion from our leaders in the workplace. Compassion would have previously been seen as a nice-to-have, but the implications of COVID have raised that stake to […]
Leading Change In A Time Of Crisis – Andre Rice
The first priority of a leader is to ensure the welfare of their staff. This is true at all times, but especially so during a crisis. A leader must ensure that their teammates are healthy and have the tools they need to be effective during the crisis. During a crisis, a leader must do everything […]
Rattled by a Pandemic, People Turn to Leaders — Any Leaders – Max Fisher
Placing faith in a leader with little control over a virus may seem irrational, but it fills a very human need….. As world leaders grapple with when and how to safely reopen their countries, many are also facing a political problem: how to maintain support as they oversee tanking economies, stifling restrictions and staggering death […]
The Iron Lady – and Tne Coronavirus Age – Peggy Noonan
An excerpt from Peggy Noonan, ‘The Iron Lady and the Coronavirus Age,” published in the Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2020 What is essential now from our political class? I find inspiration in a monumental work, the journalist Charles Moore’s three-volume biography of Margaret Thatcher. It is a masterpiece of fairness and insight. It is […]
The Importance of Empathy in Our Services-Centric, People-Oriented Economy – Irving Wladawsky-Berger
A core leadership competency is the one often missing in the higher levels of management. Empathy may seem far removed from the rough and tumble world of business, but the capacity to understand other perspectives has become increasingly necessary for success in the digital world today. A few days ago I read an excellent article in the […]
The Fine Line Between Helpful & Harmful Authenticity – Adam Grant
When We Express Ourselves, Let’s Not Forget to Think About Others….. Waiting backstage for my name to be called, I started feeling the familiar flutter of butterflies. It caught me off guard, because I thought I’d conquered my public speaking nerves. In the span of a decade, I’d gone from shaking in front of a […]