Managing today’s highly skilled professionals takes special skills — and not the ones that you may think. Oftentimes, knowledge workers know more than you do about their jobs. So, how do you ...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/07/when-your-employees-know-more/
As leaders, the rich diversity of culture and thought around the world is one of our greatest resources — if we use it as such. Differences of ideas, methods, motivations, and competencies can ...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/06/learn-to-embrace-the-tension-o/
With global expansion, intra- and inter-industry restructuring, and increasing numbers of merging organizations, the need for dynamic flexibility and a broad base of knowledge and expertise is gr...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/05/sharing-leadership-to-maximize/
As a manager or leader, do you let your people assume more responsibility when they are able? Do you know when that is, or do you keep telling yourself that they aren’t ready yet? In my travels...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/04/empowering-your-employees-to-e/
As we make our way through the challenges of the global economic crisis, high-impact performers are in demand. I’m speaking here of the indispensible workers who are willing to do what it takes...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/02/how-to-keep-good-employees-in/
Years ago, when most organizations were based on the hierarchical business model of the Industrial Age, great leaders were those who were unemotional, rational, even mechanistic. Those days are g...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/02/the-mark-of-a-great-leader/
When I first began my career as an executive educator, I challenged my clients to pick one to three behavior patterns for personal improvement. Now I realize that three patterns were too many. Th...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2010/01/an-exercise-in-changing-yourse/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: I am having a difficult time leading my team. The team members will not follow my instructions, which I am sure would make our project much more successf...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/11/leadership-isnt-about-you/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: What can I do to build my confidence in my capabilities as a leader? You won’t get to the top without self-confidence; to build it, you have to believe...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/10/build-your-self-confidence-lik/
This is second of two columns in which I address, in collaboration with my good friend and colleague, Dr. Steven Berglas, the unique challenges that entrepreneurial family businesses builders fac...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/10/how-entrepreneurs-should-handl/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: In your book, Succession: Are You Ready? you describe the challenge of succession for the CEOs of major corporations. What unique challenges do you see f...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/10/why-entrepreneurs-sabotage-the/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: I’m getting ready to move on. Should I look for my successor inside the organization or find a candidate on the outside? Developing a great successor i...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/09/why-you-should-choose-an-inter/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: Change is hard. It takes forever and I don’t even know if it’s working. Any tips for making this process easier? Change takes longer than we think an...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/09/dont-give-up-on-change/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: My company is stretching into areas of the world I’ve barely heard of — we are definitely broaching the unknown. As a leader, what do I need to be su...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/07/being-an-effective-global-lead/
One of the 20 annoying habits discussed in my book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, is “an excessive need to be me.” What do we mean by “an excessive need to be me?” Each of us h...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/07/do-you-have-an-excessive-need/
For many leaders, it is hard to make the announcement that they will soon be passing the baton of leadership to their successor. The common fear is that if they declare their intentions too soon,...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/06/if-youre-a-lame-duck-quack-lik/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: The economy will always have its ups and downs. That’s why our company has two playbooks: one for running the company in an up period and another in a ...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/06/making-money-in-chaotic-times/
One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, “Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?” I do a lot of work on executive coaching...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/05/change-succession-planning-to/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: While moving up the organization, I’ve noticed a high turnover in the senior ranks. It seems like a lot of talented people who were once successful fai...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/05/evaluate-how-you-fit-your-comp/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: Keeping employees’ committed and motivated during tough economic times seems like a tall task, especially after downsizing or program cutbacks. What sh...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/04/keeping-your-people-engaged-in/
Even if you are the best coach in the world, if the person you are coaching shouldn’t be coached, the coaching isn’t going to work. The good news is that the “uncoachables” are easier tha...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/03/how-to-spot-the-uncoachables/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: The successor I’ve chosen for my position is great! There are just a few things that aren’t going to fly at my organization. How do I set my successo...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/03/preparing-your-successor-for-s/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: It’s time for me to move on. How do I let my successor know he is next in line? And just as importantly, how do I tell the rest of the team? This can b...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/02/smoother-successions/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: I’m next in line for the big job, and my boss, the CEO, is acting very odd. She’s talked about retirement for years, but now she’s waffling. Why? W...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/02/why-ceos-cant-let-go/
This week’s question for Ask the Coach: I am on an expatriate assignment in China and have several teams of people reporting to me–but I believe that many of the leadership practices that wor...
https://hbrblogs.wordpress.com/2009/02/how-to-lead-in-china/