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Getting at the Heart of Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

I wrote this post in September, 2011. I was thinking the other day about how easy it is, when first embarking on the leadership road to pack our authority and our sense of self-importance but leave little room in the bag for what it really takes to lead well ~ heart. There are lessons here worth repeating. . What do you think?

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It’s what I push my clients to focus on as they seek to improve organizational performance – and it’s the lens I urge all leaders to look through as they review 2010 and make their ‘business resolutions’ for 2011. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.