We’ve annouced the 2009 Best Leadership Blog contest,and here is my short video to tell you why you should vote! You’ve got nothing to lose, and much to gain! See the list of nomiated blogs and place your vote today!
Ambiguity is defined as doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention. It has been an everlasting predicament when dealing with effective leadership, organizational development, and communication practices. An ambiguous leader isn’t necessarily a bad leader, but he/she certainly isn’t making the job of those he/she leads easy and understandable. In the most basic of terms,
Last week The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a big change to the Academy Awards process – next year there will be ten nominees for best picture rather than five. The last year that there were more than five nominees was 1943 (Casablanca won that year by the way). While the number of nominees fluctuated between 8-12
This is the first of a series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (place your vote now). Jon Gordon is a speaker, consultant, and author. His book, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work and Team with Positive Energy, is an international best seller and
This is the final guest blog post from our finalists in this year’s Best of Leadership Blogs competition (make your pick for best blog here) John Baldoni is an exceptional leader in the fields of leadership and communications. Inaddition to being a leadership consultant, he is a coach, motivational speaker, and author. John has written
As leaders we have a love/hate relationship with meetings. We know that when we get people together we have the opportunity for collaboration, creative problem solving and clear communication. For these reasons and more, most any leadership development program is going to include some training on meeting management or facilitation (though in my experience, probably
As a history major, I thought about writing a post about leadership skills from past business leaders, politicians etc. I thought about John C. Calhoun because of his determination, but he had so many flaws and is rather controversial. When I got to thinking about it, most of the great men and women I learned
 Many might be under the impression that as a leader passes away, his/her leadership tactics go with them. In most all cases this is very wrong. Given the deceased leader was very effective, their leadership activities and skills continue to live on, if not grow even stronger. Communication may be halted with this leader, but
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