Leadership Development Resources
From Do-er to Leader
For every leader I meet, I know that at some point, in order to become a leader, he or she has had to pass through a personal rite of passage, an alchemical moment in which, metaphorically speaking, the butterfly emerges triumphant from the chrysalis...
Four Things Employees Need From Leaders - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
In 2000, Cox Communications' Arizona branch hadn't met a budget for three years, their P&L was in shambles and morale was in the cellar. Today, the branch models organizational effectiveness, and is the U.S.-based company's largest and most successful region. A $1.6 billion operation blanketing the state, it is envy of cable systems industry-wide. What caused this dramatic change in success? All it took was a reevaluation of leadership style, and the profits followed.
Employees First: A Conversation with Vineet Nayar - Fast Company
When Vineet Nayar became CEO of HCL Technologies in 2005, the company was in trouble. The IT firm was profitable but it was losing ground to major competitors and risked slipping into irrelevance. Some CEOs might have been tempted to hire a new team of executives from the outside to revitalize the company. Not Nayar. He did what great CEOs do: he looked inside the company and found a vast untapped resource: its employees.