Category Archives: Leadership

Manage Yourself and Then Your Company: Set an Example (Part 1)

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The First Important Thing: Manage Yourself All management books, including those I have written, focus on managing other people. But you cannot manage other people unless you manage yourself first. The most crucial and vital resource you have as an executive and as a manager is yourself; and your organization is not going to do better than you do yourself. So, the first thing to say about the development of a country like yours or companies like those represented in this room today is: development. That is a very general term. Development is, foremost, dependent on how much you get … Continue reading →

Leading People in an Anxious World

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Safety is now Americans’ overriding concern. Several years ago, as I sat in a secondary school board meeting, the visiting headmaster of a K-8 school was asked what he considered the highest priority for parents in choosing high schools. I was astounded when he said “safety” rather than, for example, “quality of education.” But that was just a hint of how Americans’ safety fears would blossom in the years to come. We have become the most anxious of nations, fearing terrorists, gun rampage, sexual assault, hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms, identity theft, discrimination, and germs, among other things, and not necessarily in … Continue reading →

Training Course Leadership & People Management in Paris – France

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Program Title Effective Leadership & People Management Duration 5 (five) days Location Paris – France Program Description & Objectives This program offers opportunity for senior-level managers to acquire expert insights, explore leadership & people management concepts, and examine actionable strategies for building the kind of leadership and people manager to enable employees to deliver their optimum performance. This Effective Leadership & People Management program also aims to provide participants with the ideas, frameworks, and tools required to create an environment and culture in which individuals feel compelled to innovate and contribute to a transforming work environment. Program Content Day 1 … Continue reading →

Leadership : Visioning

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“Where there is no vision, the people perish” (King Solomon) As a Leader your thinking skills can be considered directional skills because they set the direction for your organization. They provide vision, purpose and objectives. These are your eyes to the future, allowing you to recognize the need for change, when to make it, how to implement it, and how to manage it. You find vision by reaching for any available reason to change, grow, and improve – find something that is not broken and make it better. Just as you perform preventive maintenance on your car, you must perform … Continue reading →

Why Organizations Are Struggling

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Most organizational structures have evolved over many years under a variety of executives. Structural adjustments were made to accommodate new strategies, technologies and services, special projects, and occasionally to handle personal career issues. Periodically, job descriptions and working relationships were changed as cyclic pressures for centralization and decentralization were felt. The resulting organizational structures seemed reasonable at the time, but now they may, in fact, be haphazard and dysfunctional. The purpose of an organization is to process more variety than individuals alone can handle. But most organizations evolved in a much simpler, lower-variety period of time. Now, the variety surrounding … Continue reading →