Search Results
We all assume that leaders learn from the best and become great. Yet history also suggests that leaders can end up corrupt. Who exactly do the leaders learn from to make them good or bad? Jack Welch, Steve Jobs or Oprah Winfrey may be some of your choices of leaders to emulate. However, research sug...
Key Takeaways: Anger can be useful in a work setting. You can consciously shift your emotional state. Uncover what is important to you and productively express yourself with colleagues. Anger at work can be tricky. You have (hopefully) heard the advice not to send angry emails, but what else does an...
Key Takeaways: Reflection on who you desire to become at your best as a leader—your best possible leader self—may create a self-fulfilling prophecy of leadership. No formal leadership experience is necessary to benefit from the best possible leader self. Whether you are currently a leader or aspire ...
Key Takeaways: Leaders can get in bad moods when followers go to them with personal problems. But this extraordinary time means more employees might be struggling. Instead, leaders should choose to be supportive and empathetic as much as they can. We are still grappling with the coronavirus — and th...
When we look back at the 2020 (2021) Olympic Games there will be endless stories about the history made in those three weeks in Tokyo. For me, the big story is the focus it took for these athletes to be prepared to make teams and win medals and in March of 2020 the world shut down. I can only give y...
Yesterday morning, the game of golf changed forever. For decades, the PGA Tour has been the world’s premier professional golf league. In 2021, Greg Norman announced the formation of a competitor – LIV Golf Enterprises (Hamel, 2023). The organization is backed by the Public Investment Fund, which o...
Dr. Timothy Judge and his team at Fisher Leadership Initiative of The Ohio State University recently conducted a leadership landscape survey on 58 leadership scholars. One of the survey questions asked participants to write down as many as eight findings that they believe we have learned from the 10...
Key Takeaways: Change starts with a growth mindset. Thinking systematically about change can help us be more effective. Organizational change often requires that we bring others along. In the words of Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford University and known widely for her work on growth...
Key Takeaways If you are a new leader and don’t know what leadership style to adopt, try to be authentic to yourself. There are three components of becoming an authentic leader: Self-awareness Situation awareness Character strength You’ve worked at this company for a few years and have been one of t...
Long after I’d finished playing college football, I ran into one of my former coaches, who apologized out of the blue. He saw my puzzled reaction, and elaborated: “I've realized that I’d say the right things in Bible studies with you guys, or watch game film and calmly point out corrections to you o...
