There is always a dilemma how to get better results: by fostering competition or collaboration between employees for the executions of orga...

Someone told me that blind obedience nurtures trust (my post Disciplines of execution ). Let me elaborate this a little more. I was told ...

Not long ago I met a young upwardly mobile professional. While discussing his views on management practices his position was clear: the subo...

Politics are as old as civilization is. We are all aware of that. The fascination with politics increased in the 16th century when Machiave...

Being a teacher and author of the book on leadership my interest was picked up by the article 'Why Leaders Are Easier to Coach than Foll...

How can a leader create a positive energy and still energize the team even when he is not present or feeling hopeless, angry and demotivat...

In my post on Virtue – Morality – Ethics and leadership  I have written down that virtue motivates, morals and ethics constrain. Most of t...

“ A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ” ( Shakespeare ). Giving names or labels to differentiate leadership styles today is a hu...

What is the perfect tool to connect with, inspire or motivate another? If you are trying to sell something, present it, give a speech or you...

So far I have explored several types of leadership and what constitutes them. This post I dedicate to another two leadership styles that, c...

In my quest of different types of leadership I came across BusinessDictionary.com’s  definition of ‘charismatic leader’: “The guidance pr...

Have you heard of many great managers of the past? Probably much less than about great leaders. That is why “to manage” and “to lead” are...

 The principles I’m sharing today are not rules or steps that most of the times are offered and used separately instead of integrally in W...

“The ego ” – a positive or a negative feature? Is it a necessary ingredient, an essential to had by an exceptional leader? We all seem to ...

Why, if self-confidence is so important in nearly all aspects of our lives, do so many people struggle with it? A child playing with the ...

A timeless debate like the age-old controversy about “a chicken and an egg” is more or less applicable also to the question whether leaders...

Human beings are complex integrated systems. It is hard to define them by some theoretical calculations as hard as it is to quantify demandi...

“Don’t come to me with problems – come with solutions ….” is a typical sentence that you can hear from a manager or a boss that is not in fa...

Tai Chi Quan (Tai Chi) is represented through steps by the coordinated actions of the body’s extremities, of the body as a whole including ...

There is quite a selection of titles for people offering services to businesses such as: adviser, consultant, mentor, coach. In the last ...