Within the past year or so, the topic of authentic leadership keeps surfacing around the Hogan office, with our clients, and at a few conferences. The repeated references to and different explanations of this buzzword in the leadership development world caused me to pause for a minute. What exactly is authentic leadership, and how can… Read more »
Tag: leadership
The Importance of Good Judgment
People look for four essential characteristics in leaders.
Leadership Lessons from Vonnegut
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Leading with Integrity
Leadership is the ability to build and maintain a team that can outperform the competition. Therefore a good leader must be someone others are willing to follow.
The Dark Side of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs is arguably one of the most successful businessmen in modern times. He started Apple and NeXT, took a majority ownership stake in Pixar for $10M and after ten blockbuster films sold the company to Disney for over $7B, and around the time of his death Apple had a market cap greater than the… Read more »
Leadership Lessons from the Founder of IBM
Leadership lessons from Thomas J. Watston, Sr.
What is a Good Leader?
What is a good leader? Michael Scott, the former main character in NBC’s hit sitcom The Office, has an intertesting take.
Leadership Lessons from JFK
John F. Kennedy on leadership:
Leadership Lessons from Eisenhower
President Eisenhower on leadership:
Good Managers
Ever heard the phrase, “employees leave their bosses, not their jobs”? Bad managers are easy to spot, but good managers are more difficult to identify. Because staff engagement is most strongly linked to the behavior of leaders, it is paramount that we recognize what makes a good manager good and a bad manager bad.