In this day and age leadership and leadership development has become multifaceted. It is no longer a one dimensional idea where you have a solitary boss and multiple followers. Now, being an effective leader requires the ability to coach or teach others, not just give orders. Goldman and Sachs, a full-service global investment banking and [...]

Many businesses used to look at leadership as a very straight forward, cut and dry concept. There was one main “boss” with all the answers, and a myriad of followers. This outdated view on leadership in business has evolved throughout the years. Companies now seem to focus more on the social and behavioral aspects of [...]

The NY Times has an interesting Q&A with Terry Tietzen from Edatanetworks about innovation leadership.  The concept of how you lead innovation is actually relatively new.  When most companies, or consulting companies, talk about implementing innovation they usually mean implementing some new process or the use of some new technology.  There is rarely any discussion [...]

There has been a lot of talk about the exodus of partners from Dewey and LeBoeuf.  As the article states the firm tried to grow by bringing in successful partners with generous pay packages that they have been unable to fulfill.  The primary reason for this has been the market and the lack of growth. [...]

Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company, has recently been cited in Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine as one of the top companies in terms of leadership and development.  Like many aerospace companies many of their managers are smart engineers and sciencies that have moved into management. The company was not always a proverbial power house [...]

The most basic understanding of leadership and leadership roles involves organizing a group of people together to achieve a common goal. In recent studies it has been found that there is much more to leadership development and leadership roles than just simply having people work under you. Now a days being a creative leader is [...]