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Hiring and Firing New Leaders and Managers

Most CEOs and senior executives agree that one of their most challenging tasks is choosing the right people to take on leadership...

Should a nonprofit be run like a business?

Many leaders and participants in the nonprofit world believe that the introduction of businesslike practices have no place in an...

On Leadership: from the Harvard Business Review

Here's a very good short piece from HBR on the six timeless fundamentals of leadership: https://hbr.org/2018/11/the-fundamentals-of-leade...

Leadership, Ethics, Rules and Culture

Whenever a major organizational scandal breaks - widespread fraud in a company or terrible behavior in a university, a prestigious...

What We Do Not Notice and the Value of 360’s

Every leader has been advised to focus on how he or she “shows up,” usually accompanied by injunctions to be authentic, open, supportive...

"I'm all boxed in! All the drivers of my business are beyond my control!”

Years ago, I had a client who was CEO of a company whose main product was a high-tech plastic that held the guidance systems in the nose...