How to Survive the First 100 Days As the New Boss
June 13, 2008
The New Boss: How to Survive the First 100 Days by Peter Fischer is a practical how-to guide to help leaders avoid typical mistakes and pitfalls and provides a proven framework and systematic approach to managing leadership transitions. While not all... Read more...
Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi on Developing Leaders
June 11, 2008
Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi recently told ASTDs Training+Development magazine that she believes that each one of PepsiCo’s 18,000 employees is a leader. She credits that a culture that recognizes hard work and encourages initiative. She names five skills... Read more...
5 Leadership Lessons: How the Best Get Better and Stay That Way
June 9, 2008
Sports psychologist and executive coach Graham Jones believes that the real key to excellence in both sports and business is mental toughness. In the current Harvard Business Review he writes that the most successful people do five things to get better... Read more...
Ethics: We Are They
June 6, 2008
Many people we encounter downplay the ramifications of inconsistent ethical conduct, especially when it comes to smaller compromises. On the path to becoming skilled ethical decision makers, however, we will find it helpful to take both big and small... Read more...
Out of Context: Building Meaning Into Your Life
June 5, 2008
"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like an answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of you affections and loyalties, out of the experience of... Read more...
To Engineer Is Human
June 3, 2008
At Book Expo America held in Los Angeles this last weekend, I had the pleasant surprise of meeting Todd Sattersten and Aaron Schleicher of 800ceoread. Nice guys. Todd was kind enough to give me an excerpt containing two reviews from the book he just... Read more...
Leadership Books: June 2008
June 1, 2008
Here's a look of some of the best leadership books to be released in June. Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life by Stewart D. Friedman ... Read more...
Change the Way You See Yourself
May 29, 2008
The authors that brought you Change the Way You See Everything have taken the principles of asset-based thinking and applied them more specifically to you – the individual – in Change the Way You See Yourself. Like its predecessor, this book too... Read more...
Tom Peters on the Definition of Leadership
May 26, 2008
Tom Peters’ offers his definition of leadership in the video below. He begins by expressing a truth that is more important than the definition itself. It is not often understood by those seeking to understand the shortcomings of leadership. “Leadership... Read more...
How To Troubleshoot Change
May 23, 2008
The following matrix was presented in a chapter titled A Framework for Thinking About Systems Change by Timothy P. Knoster, Richard A. Villa, and Jacqueline S. Thousand, that appeared in Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education: Piecing the Puzzle... Read more...
