You can’t be a great leader without integrity. Business leaders are under tremendous pressure to produce results. As individuals advance in the organization, bottom line results become the supreme measure of success.  Yet one of the most important achievements of a leader is producing another generation of leaders. Too few executives cultivate successors that are [...]

There are countless books and leadership assessments that define leadership and identify the type of leader you are.  The challenge is that you are likely to find as many definitions on leadership as there are books. However, when you distill all the theories, two distinct, polar, leadership styles emerge: Transactional and Transformational leadership. A Transactional [...]

I was working with a group of leaders this week discussing the difference between leadership and management; which is more important, and what does a leader need to do in today’s economy to be most effective. I asked the participant with the greatest amount of tenure (33 years) what he believed was necessary for leaders [...]