Economic Recovery – Shifting Values for the Future

August 24, 2010

Values drive economic decisions. A new video by Umair Haque on HBR.org suggests that values-driven decisions are at the root of the current economic crisis. Quite simply, our values overemphasized the wrong things. As a result, we were driven to invest capital and resources in things with negative impacts, e.g. industries that fail to create [...]

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Crucial Skill for Tomorrow’s Leaders

August 4, 2010

The recent blog post series on the Harvard Business Review site, “Imagining the Future of Leadership,” has concluded. This video has a nice, short wrap-up with clips from some of the authors of the posts about what they believe the single most important skill will be for future leaders. Its revealing that quite a few [...]

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Imagine Leadership…

July 20, 2010
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Food for thought: What does leadership really mean to you? How far can your leadership take you? Or others? Who do we follow, and who do we lead? And where are we going to end up together in the future?

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Current vs. future leadership

July 15, 2010

A great article entitled “Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions” examines the massive literature on leadership to tease out the focus of development in the field. Authors Bruce Avolio, Fred Walumbwa, and Todd J. Weber also put a future-focused slant on their research by noting issues that still need to be addressed. The article [...]

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What we can learn from the marshmallow challenge

July 3, 2010
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Leaders of the future will need to be creative, experiment and prototype rapidly. What do a bunch of spaghetti, a yard of tape, and a marshmallow have to do with the skills we need to shape the future? If you watch the highly entertaining (only 6 minutes long) video by Tom Wujec you’ll get some [...]

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Creativity: a critical leadership quality for shaping the future

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Creativity is the most important leadership quality for future success. This is view of over 1,500 CEOs in 60 nations and 33 industries, interviewed for a recent report by IBM Global Business Services. To me more precise, 60% of those interviewed named creativity as the most important skill (wth integrity in second place, at 52%). [...]

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Developing leaders for the future: Lending a hand or getting in the way?

June 18, 2010

“How are you re-making leadership development so that future leaders are ready for the world they’ll live in, not for the one we’ve known?“ This is the question posed by Stew Friedman in a recent HBR post titled How Are You Developing Future Leaders?. Reflecting on his experiences with leaders in various organization, Friedman expresses [...]

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Motivation for the future

June 16, 2010

HOW do you motivate people? That’s one of those big questions leaders and organizations constantly wrestle with. Whatever organizations and managers are doing just does not seem to be working as well as we want and need it to. We up the incentives; we increase the penalties. Bigger juicier carrots, bigger pointier sticks. But no [...]

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Is taking a long-term view really a realistic expectation for future leaders?

June 7, 2010

A leadership simulation provides evidence that the answer might indeed be yes Leaders of the future will need to take a long term view, stay focused on the greater good , even if it means being willing to give up some short-term gain for themselves and their organization. This is one of the themes that [...]

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Leaders who want to shape a positive future need to cultivate hope

June 3, 2010

“In the light of the present turmoil in today’s global environment, hopeful organizational leaders and managers become crucial to the growth, if not the survival, of any organization.“Luthans, Youssef, Avolio. Over the past few years I have had many conversations with leaders at various levels of organizations about hope. These conversations are prompted by the [...]

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