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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight. This is shared leadership in action and works on the principle of “I own what I help to create”. And it also means that a new approach to leadership and management is needed. A worthy aim!

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How to Achieve Better Gender Balance through Succession Planning and Development

Great Leadership By Dan

According to research from the book Why Woman Mean Business , women now represent a majority of the talent pool, a majority of the market, and better gender balance in leadership yields better corporate performance. MARKET : Women make 80% of consumer goods purchasing decisions in the US. Focus on representation; 2.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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How Johnson & Johnson and American Express Are Developing Young Leaders

Harvard Business Review

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. When the research showed the growing premium that companies place on high-speed development, we decided to follow up with some of the study’s participants to hear more.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

However, in the realm of leadership development, there are a handful of things a leader could do that have the potential to be truly *transformational, life-altering, and help to create a whole new worldview. It could involve new people, markets, customers, products, tools, and processes, all of which are opportunities to learn and develop.

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The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee

Harvard Business Review

If you have months for a transition, Leonard suggests creating a “carefully constructed action plan of learning,” whereby the “highly skilled, deep smarts employee is paired with one or more replacements” so they can observe her in action, learn and practice new skills, and receive feedback on their performance.