Executive Summary • Saboteurs quietly undermine trust and accountability. • Focusing only on the individual rarely solves the problem. • Patterns of deflection and disruption reveal the issue. • Strong team norms expose and neutralize toxic behavior. • Culture is the leader’s most powerful corrective tool. What is a Saboteur? It’s important to point out
Dr. Mary Kay
To be successful, leaders must take a personal leadership check-up. This isn’t something that is boring or time-consuming. A leadership checkup involves taking a few minutes to reflect and understand your leadership skills, your opportunities, where you’re going, and where you want to be. It’s like preventative care and maintenance
Tim Cummuta
When you think of effective communication for leadership, what comes to mind? Dictionary.com defines communication as the interchange of thoughts through speaking, writing, or signs, but what do most managers think of as powerful and effective communication? Far too often, communication can more accurately be viewed as the imparting of
Norman Arvidsson
In a world where so much communication happens through texting with incomplete sentences full of emojis, you can imagine why the importance of writing skills in leadership is being questioned. Much can be said through videos and podcasts. And tools such as Skype and Google Hangouts are a daily part of many
Margaret Reid
Is executive development the same thing as leadership development? The short answer is, ‘it depends on who you ask.’ You’ll see the two phrases used almost interchangeably in many places – with leadership development often being used more broadly than executive development. By using the two terms this way, we’re
Marcel Casella
I’ve run a modest software development outfit I started with two of my best friends for a couple of years now. After surviving the obligatory rough start, our team grew steadily as more ambitious projects found their way into our whiteboards. However, as we grew and began hiring more programmers
Lois Sapare
Be a better leader by looking at history and the great leaders that rose to the occasion when it was needed most. In 1948, when discrimination ruled in South Africa, Nelson Mandela and other activists fought for their rights through nonviolent methods. But when police killed his fellowmen during a
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