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5 Types of Leadership Styles That Influence Business Outcomes

What type of leader are you? What works for one individual or team may not work for another. Although some may argue...

Engaging and Building Millennial Leadership

Millennials are lambasted by their older peers. This generation—the group of individuals born between 1981 and 1996—is...

The New Leadership Paradigm

My first full-time job after college in the late 1970s was with a small publishing company in San Francisco called...

7 Principles to Harness the Power of Collaboration

The World Café is a simple, yet powerful conversational process for fostering constructive dialogue, accessing...

How Can Leaders Earn Trust?

People don't trust their leaders. According to a recent Forbes article, trust in CEOs is at an all-time low after...

What Is a Servant Leader?

Servant Leadership Primer Part 1: What Is a Servant Leader? People who first hear the phrase servant leader often ask...

What is Appreciative Inquiry?

Appreciative inquiry is a powerful approach to organization development and positive change. To put it simply:...

5 Companies That Embrace Servant Leadership

It possible to practice servant leadership in a large, publicly-held company with shareholders to answer to? You may be...

Stewardship in Leadership: Partnering Over Parenting

The similarities between management and parenting are well-observed—and rightly criticized. Employees are adults, after...