Most prescriptions for organizational change have focused on how to launch a single change initiative. This made sense in a stable world in ...

Change can involve magnitude, activity, or direction, and the first step toward a clearer vision for change is to clarify what form of chang...

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton, Jr. War as I Kne...

Some years ago in our meetinghouse in Darmstadt, Germany, a group of brethren was asked to move a grand piano from the chapel to the adjoini...

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servan...

Thank goodness we don't understand the language of ravens, jackdaws, crickets, frogs, and pigs. Otherwise we'd probably worry abo...

Risk, creativity and defining your own path is made possible only through a series of failures, some big, some small. Hide none of them. ...

In every successful transformation effort that I have seen, the guiding coalition develops a picture of the future that is relatively eas...

[Clear direction] is the leader's number one job. If you don't do anything else, you absolutely must give clear direction to your...

Personally, I see leadership as a support role — a listener, a facilitator, a translator, a navigator. I know its common to think of the ...

[Effective leaders have "high ethical and moral standards” and “communicat[e] clear expectations”...] Taken together, these attri...

Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and improve the o...

LinkedIn manages its teams using a task-tracking system called ‘Objectives and Key Results,’ abbreviated as “OKRs.” First developed by Andy...

“Vision is the dream,” says Weiner. “A company’s true north. It’s what inspires everyone day in and day out. It’s what you constantly need ...

So how does a leader get the workforce to buy into their new vision? One speaker pointed to the YouTube video Leadership lessons from da...

Leadership is all about team. It is easy and somewhat understandable to get self-absorbed when you are responsible for a project in crisis....

Companies manage complexity first by planning and budgeting-setting targets or goals for the future (typically for the next month or year...