Leadership development

Effective sponsors can help catapult junior talent into top management tiers, and good proteges can greatly expand the reach and impact of senior leaders-but...

Instead of focusing on who’s “ahead,” focus on who’s actually best-suited to the top job.

They keep things fresh and fair.

Lt. Col. Todd Henshaw, director of leadership studies at the United State Military Academy at West Point, recently spent two months in Afghanistan helping to create the National Military Academy of Afghanistan (NMAA). In the second of two posts, Henshaw explains the challenge of finding and developing leaders in Afghanistan. His comments are in quotation. […]

Most companies say they're committed to advancing women into leadership roles. What they may fail to recognize, though, is that systemic barriers are...

Few activities in a workplace polarize like performance reviews. Some see them as subjective and ungrounded, one-sided and boss-dominated and something we should do away with entirely, an opinion put forth most recently in a Wall Street Journal article. Others find them an invaluable tool to develop employees and move the company forward. Our view? […]

Designing a mid-career talent development program.

Five ways people unwittingly sabotage their rise to leadership.

Two ways Cisco does it.

They work better together.

by Loren Gary

Every two years my firm, The RBL Group, partners with Hewitt to conduct a study on the Top Companies for Leaders. It highlights those companies that have gone beyond the basics of grooming strong leaders and have come up with new ways to test their employees in the global marketplace. Quality of leadership within a […]

Is it the responsibility of schools to teach ethics? I think it is – but only if it’s done the right way. MBA Students don’t necessarily care about Kant’s third formulation of the categorical imperative — they need a simple values toolkit that they can understand and have at the ready, not an impression that […]

What could be more difficult than finding a new CEO? Many companies say it’s finding someone who’s willing to sign up for the number two job: COO. The problem often lies with a firm’s uncertainty about whether it’s looking for a “pure” COO or for a successor to the CEO. The board should be clear […]

How one architecture and engineering firm does it.

Without broader commitments to advancing women, these programs can signal that women are deficient and need fixing.

Transform yourself into the person others want to follow.

Most new leaders err too far in one direction or the other.

Outsiders are overrated.

One of the toughest things to teach leaders is how to lead when the context and variables are constantly changing. One man who is helping leaders make better decisions is Don Vandergriff, a retired Army major, lecturer and author. Vandergriff has developed the Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM) that helps individuals learn to lead in situations […]