August 30th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Robert Rosen, CEO of the management consulting firm Healthy Companies International, reported in the July/2010 issue of Leadership Excellence magazine on conclusions gleaned from interviews of top executives in forty ...more »

August 16th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

What is it that managers do? In his excellent recent book, Managing, Henry Mintzberg, the renowned expert in management and Professor of Management Studies at my alma mater (McGill), answers this ...more »

June 14th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

In a recent piece in Newsweek Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers was asked, "How are you a different CEO today than you were in 1995, when you first moved into ...more »

May 31st, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

In my May 20, 2010 blog post, Comment #1, on the TowerWatson study, I mentioned their finding that employees–at least in this tough economy–want security above all else. They suggested ...more »

May 20th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

It's that time of year again when TowersWatson (formerly TowersPerrin) publishes its always informative Global Workforce Study. The 2010 report, conducted between November/09 and January/10, covered 20,000 full time employees ...more »

May 13th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Over the last 18 months you've tried hard to keep as many of your people on the payroll as you could. Perhaps those who were retained felt a measure of ...more »

April 26th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

For those who haven't been keeping up on recent business and management books, Daniel Pink came out with an absolutely great book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. I ...more »

April 19th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

I was struck by a local news item in The Washington Post on Brian Betts, a model middle school principal, who was found gunned down in his home. While the ...more »

April 1st, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

The inaugural issue of The Korn/Ferry Institute's quarterly journal, Briefings on Talent & Leadership, has an article on one of the giants in the study of Leadership, Warren Bennis. Apparently ...more »

March 29th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

I'm deep in the middle of Henry Mintzberg's new book, Managing. While not a light read, he does take his typically provocative stand: Instead of distinguishing managers from leaders, we should ...more »