Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2012

This is a guest post by David Grossman, author of You Can’t NOT Communicate. Grossman says that there are very few things in this world that are neutral. Everything you do, and everything you say, communicates something. And, importantly, everything you don’t do, and everything you don’t say, communicates, too. In our world – and in the world of business – virtually nothing is neutral.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Imagine for a moment that you as a leader didn’t have all the perks that seem to accompany positions of leadership—no lease car, no reserved parking space, no special dining rooms, offices, furnishings or refreshments and certainly not the compensation that creates jealousies. Would you still want to be a leader? What if no one had to think that your way was always the best way?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2012

This is a guest post by Jack Zenger, co-author of How To Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths. Readers will learn not only how to pinpoint their best leadership traits but will learn ways to leverage their strengths into ones that truly distinguish them. Why do people all over the world enjoy participating in games and sports?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Jay Elliot, former Senior Vice President of Apple, has spent a lot of time with Steve Jobs. In Leading Apple with Steve Jobs , he writes that “ Isaacson’s Steve is not the Steve I knew.” He believes that there has been too much focus on the negative aspects of how Jobs dealt with people and not enough on the positive. “I think,” he writes, “most people who worked for him, including me, would say they did the best work of their lives for him and don’t regret the experience a bit.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth : Live Them and Reach Your Potential by John C. Maxwell. Makers : The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson. The Wisdom of Failure : How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price by Jim McConoughey and Laurence G.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Amy Jo Martin ( @AmyJoMartin ) has written a book about connecting. About being human. Renegades Write the Rules is about how to connect with other people using the medium of social media. But you’ll find you can apply the principles in many other ways too. She stresses the importance of just being you. Especially when it comes to exposing yourself using social media, that can be an uncomfortable place.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The labor markets are changing. With the Internet proximity is not an issue. Chris Anderson describes it this way in Makers: The New Industrial Revolution : "The Web allows people to show what they can do, regardless of their education and credentials. It allows groups to form and work together easily outside of a company context, whether this involves “jobs” or not.

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