More business leaders today are turning to executive coaches to help them become: more personally fulfilled with their contributions more effective with direct reports, peers and other executives better able to coach their team members more flexible in challenging situations Susan C. Gatton , a Dallas/Ft. want to go to the next level. MORE >>

What do chief executives do all day? Their study—known as the Executive Time Use Project —incorporates time logs kept by CEOs' personal assistants, who tracked activities lasting more than 15 minutes during a single week selected by the researchers. It really is what it seems: They spend about a third of their work time in meetings. MORE >>

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues You know them: the managers who ignore the fact that human beings don’t (actually can’t) “leave their feelings at the door” when they come to work. MORE >>

If you are a leader already engaging with an executive coach, or contemplating engaging one, here are four ways to make your coaching experience a success, as reported in a relatively recent issue of Fortune magazine: Find the right match. Find someone to push and challenge you. To encourage you and to hold you accountable. MORE >>

Here's the 2nd in a series of guest posts by Professor Jim Clawson , one of our Executive Development Program instructors for a custom program we offer on Leading Change. In this second installment, Jim offers his take on the difference between managers and leaders. Leaders vs. Managers. Over 500 posts, woo hoo! Behaviors? MORE >>