Over the past year I'm consistently asked to answer the question, "what is your overall leadership development philosophy?" I thought it would be helpful to put pen to paper and blog my answer. Our experience over the past 10 years working with thousands of senior...
Ten tips for leading businesses in turbulent times There’s no denying these are turbulent times. But there are things that you can do to lead your team and your company to success against the odds. Here are the top 10 things that you can start doing today...
It's during turbulent times, whether it be the current global economic situation or in times of industry or organization crisis, that CEOs have a tremendous opportunity to pull the people in their organization together towards a common goal. As Francois De La Rochefoucauld said, "there...
Leadership is about doing not about "saying." No matter what you believe your capacity for leadership is the reality lies within the feedback you get from your team. As the old saying goes, it's not what you say, it's what you do. At ViRTUS we call...
Brad Smart, co-author of the book Topgrading, has written a fascinating blog post that references two new studies which seem to somewhat contradict what the HR community has been saying with respect to results-focused CEOs and high emotional intelligence CEOs and the connection to company performance:...
I received this link today from Tana Heminsley (we work together at ViRTUS). Tana has a passion for Authentic Leadership and so she sent me this video of Bill George, speaking about Authentic Leadership at Google. He interviewed 125 of the top leaders alive today...