Feb 28, 2012 | Leadership
For the past decade, I have had regular conversations with a woman who leads an academic department in a US university. She was a long time insider, suffering under the yoke of the previous leader, and was thrilled to be appointed chair of the department when he...
Feb 28, 2012 | Innovation, Leadership
Is Innovation in Your DNA? Are you one of those people who get excited by new ways of doing things? Or do you get frightened and prefer to stick with the tried and true? Does your organization constantly try to look around corners and change things pre-emptively, in...
Jan 28, 2012 | Resilience, Stress
People talk to me about their work all the time. I hear from people at the beginning, middle and end of their careers. I talk to people who are flying high, and have been tapped for prestigious and complex leadership roles, and to people who have been knocked low,...
