What Makes a Great Manager?

Nov 5, 2015 | Leadership

The Right Assessment Tools Allow the Cream to Rise to The Top What sets the great boss apart from the average one? Beyond offering guidance and leadership, the best managers capitalize on their employees’ uniqueness to make them well rounded and indispensable. Those...

Leadership Bias in the West

Oct 22, 2015 | Leadership

Biases Viewing Extroversion as Necessary for Leadership are Living on Borrowed Time Culture in the West, since the middle of the last century at least, has taken a turn away from character as the basis of leadership in favor of personality. Not just any personality,...

Why S & C Leaders Shouldn’t Fake It To Make It

Oct 2, 2015 | Leadership

Inauthentic Leadership Takes Toll on Emotional, Physical Health The DISC assessment shows aspects of introverted behavior (S & C) and extroverted behavior (D & I). Bias in the West favors the D & I, extroverted side of the equation.  Due to this...

S & C (a.k.a. Introverted) Leaders

Sep 17, 2015 | Leadership

Leaders Arise From All Places on DISC Wheel One of the most important aspects of the DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Compliance) model of behavioral style is values-neutrality. None of the 384 different DISC patterns that are reflected in a TTI personal report...

The Performance Review is Over

Aug 24, 2015 | Communication, Leadership

It’s On: Job-Based Performance Feedback Vital for Success  Accenture ended it. Adobe did away with it. Even Deloitte broke up with its broken process. Adios, performance review. As a young professional in the early 2000s with a team of 15 people I loved working...

5 Skills The Most Successful Leaders Possess

Aug 21, 2015 | Leadership, Skills Development

What to Look for in New Hires, Potential Leaders We all have high hopes when we begin a new job or a new career. No one — neither the employer nor the new employee — wants to come up short. Aside from gut feelings about an individual, and perhaps some...