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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 9, 2010 04:47 pm under employee engagement Check out this sampling of posts from top leadership bloggers as part of a leadership carnival hosted by Mary Jo Asmus.

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Are you a Scientist or an Engineer? Things to think about.

Mike Cardus

Gilbert ‘Human Competence’. Corporate Team Building Innovation Leadership Organization Development coaching create-learning team building and leadership quotes Team Building' The scientist sees themselves as a tiny spot of intelligence surrounded by a vast see of ignorance. The riddle does exist.

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Negotiating Innovation and Control

Harvard Business Review

The other day I had coffee with a friend who was complaining about her company's ability to innovate. But you know, my leadership team is smart. There is an interesting idea coming out of the work my colleague Clark Gilbert is doing to transform the Deseret News and Deseret Digital (both owned by the Mormon Church).

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The Best Leaders “Talk the Walk”

Harvard Business Review

But the more time I spend with game-changing innovators and high-performing companies, the more I appreciate the need for leaders to “talk the walk” — that is, to be able to explain, in language that is unique to their field and compelling to their colleagues and customers, why what they do matters and how they expect to win.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink. Gilbert's HBR article with Joseph Bauer that also discusses Kodak is available here.

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Transforming a Company Is Daunting, But You Can Prepare for It

Harvard Business Review

Those three activities ( detailed in an article Gilbert co-authored in December's Harvard Business Review based on his experience transforming Desert News and Deseret Digital, Utah-based media organizations) don't happen accidentally. Instead, they require careful, consistent leadership. Transformation is hard work. Paradox.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/3/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs Soren Kaplan The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders [.].

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