Leading a Company in Tough Times
Posted by Alberto Ferrer on Aug 3, 2009
I recently read an article from the July 2009 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly called “Leadership lessons for hard times” (registration required) as part of their “managing in the new normal” series. The article is a collection of tips gathered from interviews with 14 CEOs of large (mostly multinational) companies. A few of the companies [...]
Taking a Look at Poor Leadership
Posted by Alberto Ferrer on Jun 1, 2009
In a short article in the June 2009 issue of Harvard Business Review, authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman (from leadership consulting company Zenger/Folkman and authors (with Scott Edinger) of The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate) take a very different look at leadership.
Instead of talking about how good leaders lead, [...]
Teams Are Impacted by Leaders’ Moods
Posted by Alberto Ferrer on Jul 30, 2007
A paper recently published in the Journal of Applied Psychology describes the results of a study seeking to link the moods of leaders with their teams. I read an excerpt of the paper as published in Rotman, the magazine of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Authored by Stéphane Côté from the [...]
Building Leaders vs. Building Leadership
Posted by Alberto Ferrer on Jul 10, 2007
I recently read at article by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood in the July-August 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review that advocates companies focus on leadership instead of leaders. The authors are partners and co-founders of RBL Group, a leadership development and human resource education consultancy.
The authors submit that some companies produce a steady supply [...]
Leader’s Covenant
Posted by Alberto Ferrer on May 28, 2007
I recently read the article “What Your Leader Expects of You” by Larry Bossidy in the April 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review. Bossidy is the former Chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal and of Honeywell after that.
In the article, Bossidy discusses that, while the success of a leadership team depends heavily on the relationships the [...]
