Perspectives

I promise that this isn't a rant that I'm on this week. It's just that I haven't finished with McKinsey Quarterly's article on Why Leadership Development Programs Fail. If it turns into a rant I know you'll tell me. Another surprise I had on the list of reasons that...

McKinsey Quarterly has another good article on Why Leadership Development Programs Fail. Essentially, their proposition is that these programs fail due to: Poor context setting. Decoupling programs from real work. The difficulty of changing mindsets. Failing to...

As long as we're on the subject of truth-telling, we should give a little attention to those among us who are regular liars. I've run into a few at work who consistently lie and never admit that they have. But those of us who work with them know them to be consistent...

Have you ever been asked the question, "Do these jeans make me look fat?" If you're being truthful you could easily answer "No, those jeans don't make you look fat." (After all it isn't the fault of the jeans but more likely the fault of one too many cookies piling up...

With all of the debate about leadership these days, I thought it would be useful to examine the leadership capabilities of Santa Claus. After all, he is universally recognized as  a doer of good deeds but have we ever turned a critical eye to what makes him effective...

I've spent more time on Google this week checking out what people have to say about management versus leadership. I may be flogging a dead horse but I keep coming up with people who say that one of the most important aspects of leadership is coming up with a vision or...

If I've got it right about the definition of management versus leadership and management is all about logic, and leadership is about emotion then it begs the question, which is more important? Another way of asking the same question is to ask whether you can be an...

I've struggled for a long time with coming up with a good definition of management versus leadership. It seems that people use the two words interchangeably. Others seem to have strong opinions about what each is. I've heard a number of CEOs say that they need better...

I figured I should follow up last week's posts about Office Politics with something about how to play the game. But that's where I got stumped. I never really figured out how to play office politics so was having trouble figuring out how to advise my loyal readers on...