by Scott Anderson | Sep 25, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Uncategorized
Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term emotional intelligence, and his writing partner Richard J Davidson, a pioneer in the field of contemplative neuroscience, have written a new book. Though Goleman is fairly well known as an expert in leadership, Altered...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 26, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
This is the final post on “What Not To Do And How Not To Do It” covering six of the biggest leadership mistakes and how to stop making them. Like the other negative behaviors we’ve discussed in the past several weeks, a bad attitude can manifest in many...
by Scott Anderson | Apr 19, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
. . . everyone’s waiting for you to go off. In the past few weeks, we’ve covered four of the six leadership mistakes and how to fix them: excuse-making, bad manners, ego problems, and lying; get ready for the loose cannon. I like to say that this kind of leader...
by Scott Anderson | Oct 26, 2016 | Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
Steve Blank published a great article last week about succession planning (“Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors”, Harvard Business Review) that made me review my own experience in this area. Blank describes the traditional entrepreneurial succession...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 23, 2016 | Leadership
What makes a leader stand out from his or her peers? In the past, there may have been more of an argument for different types of people taking to different leaders for “different” or intangible cultural reasons. Today, we can see that we are living in a global village...