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 [...]
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 [...]
Information Freedom
Posted by Alberto Ferrer on May 18, 2007
When I was working at Leo Burnett as an AAE, I thought quite highly of myself. There I was, making $16,000 per year, working on the prestigious Procter & Gamble business. I had my very own cubicle, my very own key to come in and out of the office (no access cards back then), and [...]
