“Practicing each dimension of the centered-leadership model is linked to higher levels of personal and professional satisfaction. Leaders who master the art of leading from their core— using several dimensions of the model we call “centered leadership”—are likelier than others to be passionate about their work, effective as leaders, and satisfied with...

“Managers get lots of training on how to fire an individual employee but usually are left on their own when they have to deliver bad news to a group. No matter how skillfully you announce bad news, it’s likely to cause anxiety, result in at least a temporary drop in productivity, and prompt some of your valued employees to look for work elsewhere. How...

“If you usually communicate by way of bullet points and digital technology, you may need to re-learn the art of listening. Active listening — the willingness and ability to hear and understand — continues to be a core element of effective leadership. When you listen well, you gain a clear understanding of another’s perspective and knowledge....

“Anyone who has sent a humorous email that has confused — or worse, offended — someone knows the danger of trying to be funny in an email. Email does not convey tone. How your message sounds to you when you type it has no relation to how the reader will interpret it. Keep business email straightforward. Pointing out that something’s funny by...

” In a challenging economic cycle, many of the most brilliant and capable professionals are anything but successful — some even end up having serious financial problems. It’s not that they don’t work hard. In many cases they work too hard. The problem is they fail to manage the fruits of their labors effectively and let their profits slip...

… Insightful research findings. Social networks are inevitable for today successful businesses. CMO’s have to stratgically focus their efforts towards best utilization of such huge freely-offered customers feedback. It generates lots of ideas on how to improve products and services. Executives have to learn how to listen. Evantually; this leads to...

… Another interesting addition by Ulrich and Smallwood ‘leadership code’ after their interesting and must-read book “Leadership Brand”. “The world doesn’t need another leadership theory. On Amazon, there are 480,881 books today that have to do with leaders as the topic. If you ask 30 leadership development experts to...