I’ve got news for leaders who prefer the sound of their own voice — if you’re not using your ears, you’re not leading at all. One of the most valuable leadership skills is listening.
Regardless of how great your products and ideas are, your people ultimately build, sell, and support them. The world’s best companies are able to continuously recruit and retain outstanding people and cultivate employee loyalty.
Great businesses are able to grow in good times and bad, largely because they’ve mastered three secrets to business change management.
In this new blog series I will share 10 specific business philosophies and entrepreneur leadership lessons gleaned from a 25-year career in software.
A goal of every CEO and board of directors member needs to be addressing “elephant-in-the-room” challenges and responding with teachable moments.
Given the option of a quarterly operating review or a quarterly board meeting, the operating review wins every time. No other meeting has a bigger impact.
One of the functions of a board meeting should be to discuss any issues or problems, no matter how prickly. That means addressing the elephant in the room.
Today’s companies need adaptive and strategic leadership now more than ever. Here are six habits of leaders who fit the bill.
Over the years I have witnessed numerous ways in which companies, founders, CEOs and managers have hurt employee morale, which in turn hurt company performance and in some cases doomed them to failure. Here are nine great ways to do just that.