Kurt Lewin a German-American psychologist is credited with labeling the basic leadership styles in 1939. I found it very interesting that Lewin and his researchers used schoolchildren with an arts and crafts project while a team of observers watched the …
Is decisiveness important in leadership? Let me give you some background first before I answer that. I started my first company when I was 26 years old. The business struggled for the first couple of years, and then it took …
Is it the action of leading a group of people or an organization? I strongly believe that it is action in leading an organization or a department. So what does it mean to take action? To me action is the …
Can you relate to this statistic? This statistic is from a Statistics Canada study. This cost is probably 10 times that amount in the United States as the U.S. has 10 times the population of Canada. What can be done …
Did you know that stress costs employers $20 billion annually in Canada? Read more »
Is it a personality issue? Everyone knows a story about a very smart person that is promoted into leadership at an organization and truly flops at the position. You and I also know of a person with ordinary abilities who …
Why is it that some people can lead and others can’t? Read more »
Of course leaders are born, we all are born! The key question is, does a leader have special DNA in them that kick starts their leadership abilities? I don’t think so, and I’ll tell you why. On a personal note …