Our values are reliable and powerful predictors of our behaviors. Even when we are not fully aware of what they are, over time they will increase in stability. Their power lies in the fact that they form the basis for… Read More ›
Month: December 2012
Five Types of Power and How Leaders Use Them
Power is a tool that leaders use to influence the attitudes, behaviors, and even the values of subordinates to achieve organizational goals and objectives. They may use it to change unwanted attitudes and behaviors, or to encourage attitudes they desire. … Read More ›
Five Characteristics for 21st-Century Leaders
Characteristics of learning leaders There are five characteristics learning leaders of 21st-Century organizations must possess to be successful: perception and insight, motivation, emotional strength, cultural innovation, and participatory influence. Perception and insight Cultural assumptions are unconscious beliefs and values that… Read More ›
The Learning Dynamics of Learning Organizations
The dynamics of learning organizations center around its core subsystem, learning. To understand the concept of the learning dynamics of a learning organization begins with an understanding of what learning is, especially as distinguished from acquiring of knowledge. Learning is… Read More ›
Globalization: Good or Bad?
The answer to this question depends on who you ask. If you ask leaders and business people of some small and many medium to large-sized companies, they are likely to tell you that globalization is great! Why? Because it literally… Read More ›
The First Step in Building an Effective Team
How to Get Your Team to Commit and Buy-in to Your Vision One of the first steps a leader does in building an effective team, is to rally employees around a worthwhile meaningful organizational goal. To do this, the leader… Read More ›
The Impact of the Internet on Business
Advanced technologies and the Internet have forever changed many of the fundamental ways that we as a society do business. The availability of instant information has removed the element of time from the business process. Information is what business leaders… Read More ›