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Leaders from around all types of fields are facing a new kind of challenge: coping with the various waves of disruptive, revolutionary change. One wave has [...]

What if servant leadership had not been initially labeled servant leadership?  How many times has this been pondered as this value-laden leadership concept evolved?  And why [...]

Remember your very first day on the job?  Your shoes had a shine like the tiles on the Space Shuttle and the crease in your slacks [...]

Burnout. Too many priorities to tackle. Insufficient resources. Difficulty motivating volunteers or staff. These are the challenges facing executives and managers of non-profit organizations and agencies. [...]

Your English teacher isn’t going to like this. Don’t get me wrong; the grammar and composition you learned in high school English class are critically important, [...]

Abraham Lincoln wrote: “Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated; it is the lawyer’s avenue to the public.  However able and faithful he may be in [...]

In today’s economy business leaders can’t afford to accept under-performing personnel in their companies. Yet, in a recent survey 44% of them reported being unhappy with [...]

Mastering the Art of Asking Questions is essential if you want to succeed.  It’s not simply a matter of getting in the habit of utilizing questions [...]

Because of thunder storms in Atlanta, the flight from Dallas to Atlanta had been delayed twice. On the third attempt, we were boarding and I felt [...]

The greatest victory any leader can enjoy is mission or task accomplishment. That is what we are here for and the standard by which we will [...]

To produce healthy plants it takes the right amount of water, sunlight, fertilizer, and care. Too much water or too little sunlight may hurt your plants. [...]

The frequency at which the word “engagement” appears in any discussion about employee communication has begun to make me wonder whether we clearly understand what the [...]

There is a lot of attention directed at small businesses this year. President Obama talked about the need to help and support small businesses in his [...]

If the organization provides safety and security for employees, then employees will provide the organization with their brawn. But what about the brain? That is a [...]

If you ask any historian to name the greatest leaders in western civilization, there’s a good chance the 16th president of the United States will make [...]

As women progressively enter leadership roles and management positions in organizations that traditionally used to be held by men, many pose questions about leadership styles and [...]

How do we define leadership in the 21st century? One of the first systematic attempts to study leadership was the “trait theory.” Early trait theories were [...]

“This is boring,” Ty muttered as he sat through yet another management training session. “I could be showing my new team member, Jeff, how to do [...]

Let me be so bold as to say that you will never find or be the perfect leader. To be human is to make mistakes. But [...]

Mainly because a great many among us continue to misunderstand the far reaching implications of effective leadership, I find myself amazed at the number of middle [...]