Feedback: Getting Great Insights From People Who Matter
As leaders, getting enough feedback on your leadership can sometimes be a challenge. Of course, it’s important to know what your boss thinks. What is equally important are the broader impressions your leadership is making up down and sideways. Today I share some...
Hold that Question: The Art of Big Questions, Held Long
I’ve been thinking a lot about the value of big questions. As leaders, our days can become so full of questions which we feel immediate pressure to ask and answer. As leaders it is also vital that we ask the big, tough questions. “The number one difference...
Connect, Influence, Inspire: A Growing Leaders Salute to Bill Gessert
Great leaders connect with, influence and inspire those around them. Bill Gessert, who has served as President of the International Customer Service Association since 2007, has spent his career creating forums and opportunities for leaders to connect and grow. And so,...
Won’t You Please, Please Help Me?
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way. But now these days are gone, I’m not so self-assured, Now I find I’ve changed my mind and opened up the doors. – The Beatles Do you help when you can? Not...
Full Potential Leadership: Convincing Them to Bet on You
Are you truly building your full potential? The choices you make now, will impact what jobs are available down the road. Moving up too quickly in one functional area may limit the diversity of skills you learn, and turn you into a specialist with limited future...
Got Results? How to Succeed in Your Next Developmental Assignment
If you are a strong leader, with a proven track record of results and looking to advance, chances are you are going to be asked to take on a job you know nothing about. On paper, you will be completely unqualified. Welcome to the world of succession planning...
The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit:A Book Review
I imagine most of you are familiar with Dan McCarthy and his insightful blog, Great Leadership. I also know that many of you are also bloggers, who, like me, have aspirations of “some day” turning your posts into a brilliant and useful book. Dan has done...
Growing Leaders Salute:Interview with Dan McCarthy
As my regular readers know, on Saturdays I do a “Salutation,” about something warm and positive going on in the world. As I am meeting kindred spirits through my writing and leadership, I realized that some of the warmest stuff happening is coming from the...
