There’s a new study in the Harvard Business Review of 16 characteristics of leadership in which female leaders outpace their male counterparts.
Based on experience with hundreds of companies and organizations the categories that don’t surprise me are building relationships and developing others. Read more
May-June produces the annual crop of graduations speeches. I had the pleasure to listen to former President Clinton at the New York University graduation at Yankee Stadium on May 18th. Clinton, as always is interesting and provocative. Read more
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric was delivering a speech in midtown Manhattan recently and the Q&A that followed covered a variety of relevant business topics. I asked an outlier: “Where would you rank ‘communication skills’ among all that is expected of a great leader?” Read more