1142 Posts Found

Rayona Sharpnack is a teacher and a mentor to some of the most powerful women in some of the most important companies around. Her message: Don’t worry so much about what you need to know. Instead, figure out who you need to be.

Content: Article | Author: Cheryl Dahle | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, Women in Business

Internet Capital Group has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in companies that are looking to make their mark in e-commerce. John Hamm evaluates and advises the entrepreneurs who run those companies. Here are the character traits that he looks for. Do you have what it takes?

Content: Article | Authors: Cheryl Dahle, John Hamm | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership

This site, created by John Baldoni, is designed to help managers create, plan, manage, recognize, and lead more effectively by providing tips and pointers you can implement immediately to improve your leadership skills. Categories found on the site include: Practice, Thoughts, Speeches, Humor, Quotes, Commentaries, Services and Hot Links.

Content: Online Resource | Author: John Baldoni | Subject: Leadership

Leadership is about taking an organization to a place it would not have otherwise gone without you, in a value-adding, measurable way.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Miscellaneous

The problem facing almost all leaders in the future will be how to develop their organizations’ social architecture so that it actually generates intellectual capital.

Content: Quotation | Subjects: Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Content: Book | Author: Noel M. Tichy | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Robert M. Fulmer, Ph.D. | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Author: Howard E. Gardner | Subject: Leadership

Donald Winkler is profoundly dyslexic. He is also a startlingly effective leader at one of the world’s biggest companies. The two are related. He sees the world in ways that we can’t or won’t. Read about his ideas on “breakthrough leadership” and his 10 principles for effective leadership.

Content: Article | Author: Keith H. Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, People

Atiq Raza was in position to become CEO of one of Silicon Valley’s old-guard giants. But he left to create Raza Foundries, a company that helps build other companies. Just don’t call it an incubator.

Includes a sidebar of three leadership lessons learned by proteges of Atiq Raza: never take a dollar at face value; deal with the customers who count; and focus on the … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bill Breen | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Content: Book | Author: Dale Carnegie | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Authors: James M. Citrin, Paul B. Brown, Thomas J. Neff | Subject: Leadership

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Content: Quotation | Source: CEO Refresher | Subjects: Character, Leadership

Content: Book | Author: Gene N. Landrum | Subject: Leadership

Bigstep.com founder Andrew Beebe recently handed over the reins of his young company to a more experienced CEO. Here are his five tips to step down gracefully — without stepping out.

Content: Article | Author: John Hoult | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Leadership, People

Former football coach Dick Vermeil is now working with Safeguard Scientifics and Bridge Tech Partners on a $150 million venture capital fund that will support women and minority-owned firms in the technology, media and communications areas. But his ideas about leadership are based on a career in which he led two different teams to the Superbowl two decades apart. Vermeil shared his thoughts on being … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: Knowledge@Wharton | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Authors: Barbara Mackoff, Gary Wenet | Subject: Leadership

Content: Book | Authors: Betty S. Flowers, Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge | Subject: Leadership

You know the sort: They operate deep within big companies, well beneath the cultural radar, and are practically invisible to the top brass. Employing many different styles and strategies, typically waging small battles rather than epic wars, they work slowly to change the rules.

Content: Article | Author: Keith Hammonds | Source: Fast Company | Subjects: Change Management, Leadership

People are more easily led than driven.

Content: Quotation | Subject: Leadership