Perspectives
Knowing yourself – what drives you?
Over the next many weeks, we'll be presenting a series of leadership and management exercises to help you understand yourself better and to help you become a better leader. This is the first of these exercises. Watch out for them on Mondays as long as I stay...
Fake it till you make it
Research out of Columbia University summarized here suggests that men's dominance of the 'C' Suite may not in fact be due to discrimination but to over confidence. In an amusing set of studies, the researchers set out to determine whether men have an easier time...
Thought for the day
Creative people don't retire. They just keep on creating. It's probably because we love our work that we never want to stop. The question is: Do you love what you do enough to say the same thing? Do you love your work enough to never want to retire? And if you don't...
Is your board evaluating leadership skills?
Why is it that so many CEO's with bad leadership skills can continue to exist in organizations? The problem often comes down to a board of directors not doing its job properly. The board has two jobs, to hire and fire the CEO and to comment on strategy. A board that...
Results versus Relationships
Futurestep has released an interesting study and I'm picking it apart bit by bit. One thing that I found fascinating was a comparison between the things that get you promoted versus the things that will limit your promotability. The following chart shows the...
Tele-working is not Tele-leading
Many companies are extolling the benefits of teleworking but to my mind, it's just an excuse to save money. I don't believe that you can innovate at a distance, form an effective team at a distance, or lead from a distance. certainly you can manage from a distance but...
6 Passages of Leadership and Management
Dan McCarthy has written an excellent blog on the 6 passages of leadership and management. You can find the blog here. What makes this blog particularly good are not the passages per se but how he differentiates what a manager does from what a leader does at each...
An engineer’s perspective on Emotional Intelligence
It is perhaps both the most needed and least understood skill in business, that of emotional intelligence. James Standen's perspective is especially interesting given his engineering background. https://vimeo.com/40876178
From Manager to Leader
I gave a talk recently at MaRS about seven things a manager needs to do to become a leader. If you have too much time on your hands, you might consider watching it. https://vimeo.com/41313552