Want Your Employees to Speak Up? Be an Inclusive Leader.
A vocal workforce fuels business. Feeling valued and sharing opinions creates a company culture that benefits shareholders, employers and employees. But how do you cultivate this type of...
Focusing on the People
The Be Human Project strives to embolden business leaders to focus not just on markets, products or margins but on the people that make an institution possible. This...
Our Work Shapes US
Practical wisdom is missing from our work life. That's what psychologist Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College, believes. Schwartz explains the...
Geese, Not in Bottles, As Leaders
Huawei, a Chinese tech firm and competitor of Apple and Samsung, introduced a new leadership style in 2012 – a rotating CEO/Executive Management Team (EMT) structure based on...
What Chickens can Teach Us about Company Culture
The organizational patterns of a chicken coop may not be the most likely place to model company culture. But what happens when you model a chicken coop after...
Musical Leadership: Control and Collaboration
Conductor and Maestro Leadership Program founder Itay Talgam's October 2009 TEDtalk Lead like the great conductors is about how great conductors demonstrate different qualities of leadership. The true nature...
Cardinal Rules for Leadership
While the Cardinals played the Mets in a four game series, Forbes released a brief review of Mike Matheny, his management of the St. Louis Cardinals and his...
Leadership That Betters Our Lives Not Just Our Work
On Thursday, May 14, the COCAbiz Session featured Bob Chapman, chairman and CEO at Barry-Wehmiller, and moderator Dr. Kathy Cramer, Ph.D. At the bizSESSION, Chapman challenged traditional thinking...