Kaplan DeVries consultants have helped leaders take their performance to the next level since 1992.
by Robert E Kaplan
No sooner did we meet to kick off our work together than EmmaJean bared her soul. Uncharacteristic of her I later learned. “Look,” she said emphatically, “If I’m…
Does your ego leak, even a little?
Mine does. I’m sure I don’t know the half of it. I do notice a tendency to enthuse about something I’ve just experienced — an intoxicating live performance, an exceptional book, a Eureka moment — as if to persuade others to attach the same high…
Robert E. Kaplan and Jennifer Farrer
When leaders are assessed to help them improve or to make staffing decisions, the final product — typically a set of strengths and weaknesses — is a superficial read that lacks coherence, lacks…
Working On Yourself — Pleasant In Its Unpleasantness?
Offered the opportunity to work on himself, his first brush with intensive leadership development, Larry Wheeler* told his wife, “I need this like a hole in the head.”
Only the convinced and bold who aren’t shy about exercising power get a new venture off the ground and keep it there. Yet, ironically, that…
