INTRODUCTION It’s critical for leaders to manage their thoughts, emotions and behaviors in the face of a multitude of stressors. In enterprises large and small, strategic shifts, mergers, acquisitions, ownership changes, restructuring, private/venture equity influences, and cost-cutting initiatives surface as frequent challenges. Through this barrage of change, leaders must regulate…

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So this recent article in the NY Times created quite a stir on a professional listserv that I’m a member of (The Society for Consulting Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association). The gist of the article is that the author felt unjustly categorized by a personality test she…

I found this article on female leadership and assertiveness to be very interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/opinion/sunday/gender-bias-work.html I’ve been doing some research on leadership and assertiveness lately, so this piqued my interest. One thing I’ve learned — which is captured in this article — is that women are a prisoner of other people’s…

I found this story from the NY Times about charisma really interesting. I researched charismatic and inspirational leadership during my PhD. Based on a model called Transformational leadership, here are the behaviours that define charismatic/inspirational leadership… Leaders should: Instill pride in followers for being associated with him/her. Go beyond self-interest…

I published this article on Forbes.com back in 2012 (wow, starting to feel old!), but I get clients and contacts from time to time telling me that they read it and found it helpful. I’m re-posting here in case it’s of interest. As I look back on writing this article…

Leadership is a process…not a product. It’s a series of steps you go through to examine yourself and your environment, to set and make progress towards goals, and to collect feedback constantly. Leadership is not a one size fits all solution. It’s not following the belief that there is one…

In my last post I told you how I had been fortunate to be asked to help plan a conference on executive coaching, this coming October. In the process of planning the conference with my other highly experienced and talented committee members, I’ve come across a number of interesting trends…