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What Kind of Business Leader Are You?

Women on Business

Beate Chelette shares the following insights on The Glass Hammer regarding leadership models: “For the longest time, most successful women have adopted one of two main business leadership styles because there have been no other models. These are the women who will remain their entire lives in management positions and never advance.”

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What Kind of Business Leader Are You?

Women on Business

Beate Chelette shares the following insights on The Glass Hammer regarding leadership models: “For the longest time, most successful women have adopted one of two main business leadership styles because there have been no other models. These are the women who will remain their entire lives in management positions and never advance.”

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

This meant from a young age I knew that leading, not just managing and working with people was something I would always pursue. Whether managers are prepared to acknowledge this is another point altogether! Why does CoachStation exist? Personally and professionally I am influenced heavily by my ethics and standards.

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3 Qualities of a Great Mentor

Steve Farber

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

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3 Qualities of a Great Mentor

Steve Farber

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Or building a swing set without the nuts and bolts.

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Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. If so, you should examine your management system. It is a bad sign and points to serious management problems. Point 10 on W.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Creating and Capitalizing on the Best New Management Thinking. Part of our initial response was to rank management gurus according to the measurable influence of their ideas; we were the first researchers to use scholarly methods to do so. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K.