Strategic planning and strategic leadership styles vary just as the employees and owners of companies involved in the planning process differ. Visit local bookstores or check on line to see hundreds of books claiming to have the secrets to a successful business and easy strategic planning. Technology and the Internet has forced companies to make [...]

Power is a commodity. There is a limited amount of it to go around. Therefore, I must clutch my power to my chest and never let a shred of it out of my grasp.  
 
Power is organic. Like life itself, it is limitless. Therefore, when I share power with others I lose nothing, and they gain [...]

The inauguration is over, appointments are agreed upon, our nation’s capitol returns to itself and millions of Americans watch to see President Obama lead this country toward his vision for the United States of America.  It will take his embodying that vision for the country and the congress to agree and follow the strategic plans [...]

Although a somewhat pretentious-sounding expression, the â??term thought leadershipâ? has gained widespread usage across the business service and technology sectors and increasingly those working in law firm marketing. A quick Google search reveals over one million pages using the expression, including numerous consultancies paying it for the privilege of their link appearing when the term [...]

Do you wish to improve as a leader? Leadership has been defined by many different people in many different ways yet all essentially saying the same thing. I particularly like the definition and explanation from the book “Leading like Jesus” by Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges…”Leadership is a process of influence. Anytime you seek to influence [...]

Great leaders do great things. It was Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and CEO who said â??innovation distinguishes between a leader and a followerâ?.
Leaders are the people who make a difference in their workplace and excel at what they do, inspiring others as they go. Great leaders do not necessarily follow the prescriptive rules laid out [...]

As a teenager, I KNOW how hard it is to feel like you ‘fit in’ during high school, college or university. That’s why I’ve prepared this brief list of tips on how to lead as a young person. Most of the time, teenagers like myself just want to ‘fit in’ and go unnoticed. This is [...]

Fortune magazine once published an article entitled “The Best Advice I Ever Got.” It was a great article that offered wit and wisdom about achieving business success. I liked it so much, that it motivated me to produce my newest book, Leadership—Best Advice I Ever Got, which describes the best leadership advice 136 successful CEOs, [...]

â??Donâ??t run for office. You are already elected.â? Jack Welch
â??Collaboration across boundaries is fundamentally different.â? Carly Fiorina
Executive leadership teams, the groups of senior level executives â??typically led by the CEOâ??that drive an organization, have a substantial effect on the companyâ??s culture, work environment, strategic direction, and productivity. A well- or poorly-run team can literally mean [...]

This is a quote from one of Martin Luther King Jr.â??s most profound speeches. Martin Luther King Jr. stands out as a person who truly connected to the Divine in himself. When he said, â??Iâ??ve been to the mountain topâ?¦â? he is telling us that he is a man who has had a true spiritual [...]