Diversity & Management – Pt I

Diversity & Management – Pt I Many of you have heard me make a clear distinction between leadership and management. I believe that leadership is an impersonal activity. Management is a much more intimate activity. Leaders stand before the group and paint a...

Over-Led & Under-Managed

Over-Led & Under-Managed Back in 1977, Harvard professor Abraham Zaleznik penned his classic article entitled, Managers and Leaders: Are They Different? Over the next twenty five years, dozens of high profile authors have referenced that work and have concluded...

Diversity & Management – Pt II

Diversity & Management – Pt II The McKinsey Quarterly reported in its 2008 edition that nearly half of the executives that they surveyed identified increased competition for talent as the trend that will have the greatest effect on their companies over the next...

Diversity & Management – Part III

Diversity & Management – Part III or a lot of obvious reasons, innovation has become the new catchword in business. Recent research by McKinsey reveals that there is a wide gap between the aspirations of executives to innovate and their ability to execute. 70% of...

Diversity, Dignity, Culture & Spirit

Diversity, Dignity, Culture & Spirit I want to start a dialogue about seemingly unrelated matter that I find is at the core of every human interaction. Whether it’s business relations, family relations, social relations, community, faith community, associations,...