Catch most managers in a moment of honesty, and they'll admit they feel less effective than they'd expected to be. The reason, they'll say, is that they're too busy to do the big things they'd hoped to do.

We conduct a program called The Leadership Room for small groups of executives. During last week's session we sent the ten participants to retail esta...

I often ask some of the executives I work with to address a seemingly simple construct. They are asked, "If you had a clone performing your current jo...

There's an old saying: "The real discussion begins once the meeting's over, the decisions have been made and everyone has left the room."

Recently, at the request of a board of directors, I met with a senior executive who was widely considered to be a leadership disaster, but his busines...

A friend of mine is in a senior position at a mid cap that just filed bankruptcy. Sadly hundreds of employees will lose their jobs, investors and lend...

To my mind, sales people were slick, oily and unpleasant. They traveled with an overnight bag filled with Hermès ties and carried a slight odor of sulfur. These days, I can give you thousand reasons why I love sales people, and why you should too.

Too many executives choose probable death tomorrow over certain death today. Trust me, in the end, you and your people lose by taking a bad number.

Even if an organization is able to reorganize in a way that eases out its under-performers, most managers still lack solid hiring skills, and few have a well-developed nose for talent that makes a difference. Here are a few counter-intuitive rules for finding the best talent.

Strong leadership is critical to every employee at every level in the security industry. At AlliedBarton Security Services, leadership is much more t...