Workplace violence, terrorist attacks, a pandemic, senseless shootings, health issues, and natural disasters call attention to managerial leadership in crisis situations. These situations often catch leaders unprepared to face unexpected challenges of great consequence. What leadership behaviors are most critical [...]
Recently, a series of 3 research studies sought to identify leadership actions that promote organizational innovation (Contreras, Carlos-Espinosa, & Dornberger, 2022). The researchers saw innovative leadership as a style of leadership that encourages innovative behaviors by team members. They studied [...]
It is not unusual for high-performing leaders to favor their intuition over a comprehensive analysis when making decisions impacting the future of their organization. The effectiveness of this practice was recently tested in a study of 234 companies (Szanto, 2022). [...]
A recently published research study sheds some intriguing light on the competencies that appear to be the strongest predictors of leadership effectiveness (Kozminski, et. al, 2022). 242 leaders in top managerial positions provided data for the study. The results showed [...]
Steve Jobs stepped onto a San Francisco stage and proclaimed, "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything." By the time he left that stage, he had persuaded millions of people to queue up in [...]
Mentoring is a significant and meaningful professional developmental relationship between two people. It can take different forms such as workplace mentoring, youth mentoring, or academic mentoring as well as taking on different shapes such as reverse mentoring or peer mentoring. [...]
An interesting study with 17 executives sought to discover how these leaders engaged their staff and inspired employees to go above and beyond in their work (Yanchus, Brower, & Osatuke, 2020). The interviews yielded specific, actionable best practices. Most salient [...]
We don't work together anymore--at least not all in the same place at the same time. Dispersed teams have become a new normal and leaders need to adjust. Intersecting social identity theory and leadership research, a study highlighted the importance of inspirational leaders who, [...]
A recently published study identified the best practices used by 10 successful information technology (IT) project managers to lead effective virtual IT project teams (Cripe & Burleigh, 2022). The project managers had more than ten years of experience managing virtual [...]
Life requires all of us to make tough calls from time to time. These are the decisions we don't want to make, often because they hold dire consequences for both ourselves and others. But leaders are often called upon and [...]
Talent retention is a top priority for business leaders in 2022 (Steen, 2022). Ensuring that an organization has a satisfied, engaged, and productive workforce is a concern that extends to all organizations worldwide. A recent study reviewed 47 research publications [...]
With a rollercoaster economy and political turmoil at every turn, these are indeed difficult and uncertain times. The future is an unsettling unknown. Interestingly, research finds that in times like these people become either pessimistic or optimistic (Rigotti, et al., [...]
Leaders who cannot delegate are not long in their leadership roles. The inability to delegate tasks and responsibilities leads to team members perceiving the leader as lacking trust, respect, and appreciation for them when it comes to completing important tasks. [...]
Regardless of how nurturing a workplace culture may be or how great your relationships with whom you work, inevitably there will be a need for a difficult conversation. These are conversations holding high stakes, regarding sensitive issues, with uncertain outcomes, [...]
Leadership is consistently identified as one of the strongest predictors of organizational success. One effective strategy for ensuring the future success of an organization is, therefore, to develop its' next generation of leaders. It is particularly important that leaders be [...]