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Being a Good Leader is Tough Stuff

Lead Change Blog

People see how their tactical work fits into the boss’s overall strategy. They value traditions while encouraging innovation and creativity. They know when to centralize and decentralize to maintain efficiency without sacrificing effectiveness. People respect a good leader’s knowledge and are motivated by their vision.

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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. We demonstrate that agile organizations possess both strategic and tactical agility. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. Northern Command.

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Today’s Automation Anxiety Was Alive and Well in 1960

Harvard Business Review

.” On one hand, “the machine is seen as the master of men unless firm government control or a workers’ revolt intervenes” (it was the ’50s, after all); on the other, those who believed “that the innovations are simply a phase of technological progress which begin with the invention of the wheel.”