The month’s Leadership Development Carnival is hosted by the always-clever Sharlyn Lauby, writer of the award-winning blog HR Bartender. She’s put together a fantastic line up of leadership-themed blog posts and as a bonus – the contributors have added a suggested book title for your reading enjoyment. So, if you’ve got a vacation planned…
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Is Your Leadership Full of Bull?
I had lunch with a friend today who told me about a book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots. It’s been around awhile, but it was a new title to me. The key aim of the book is to help people speak more clearly and persuasively. That makes sense, based on the title, right?…
What’s Your Leadership Legacy?
So I’m standing there, talking with a seventy-year-old man, who has recently retired from his career as a vice president overseeing hundreds of workers each day. His wife is undergoing cancer treatment and he lays this on me: “Jen, with Nancy’s illness, I’ve realized I was such a jerk as a boss. My people would…
SmartBlog on Leadership – Can Your Team Say No?
Twice a month, Lead Change Group authors write a blog post on the SmartBlog on Leadership site. Today it’s my turn with a post called How to Get Your Team to Speak Up. It’s based on my observation that many team leaders create a culture where saying “no” is unacceptable, thereby causing their team…
Leadership and Positive Social Contagion
Are there any positive leadership stories out there anymore? Anyone? Anyone? Sometimes, I feel like Ben Stein’s economics teacher in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, casting about for any story that sheds a positive light on the ability to lead with character. In the last week alone, I’ve personally heard three stories of leadership failure: …