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Interview with Larry Bonfante

Larry shares his insight on what it takes to successfully lead an IT organization, through various speaking engagements, his work with the Society for Information Management and his executive coaching practice, CIO Bench Coach. The interview also brings our other facets of his life as an author and coach, showing gow success needs a skill set beyond the technical.
Read his full interview at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/355892/The_Grill_Larry_Bonfante

The Changing Face of Leadership Development

Leaders today need to possess high emotional intelligence, a keen understanding of risk management and the ability to tackle paradoxes — a tall order, and one Chief learning officers must fill. This article talks about the four factors which must be considered while developing leadership pipelines in organisations.
Read the full article at: http://clomedia.com/articles/view/the-changing-face-of-leadership-development/1

Where do we go from here? Building an intergenerational progressive movement

An interesting article about the authors own leadership journey and the development of a program that is focused on supporting young leaders committed to social and environmental justice in Canada.
Article can be accessed at: http://rabble.ca/news/2011/06/where-do-we-go-here-building-intergenerational-progressive-movement

Empathy in Leadership – 10 Reasons Why It Matters

The article is a transcript of an interview between the author and Lolly Daskal on the subject of ‘The Role of Empathy in Leadership’. The article deals with interesting questions such as a what role does empathy play in Leadership and why aren’t we more empathetic at work.
The entire interview can be read at: http://humancapitalleague.com/Home/15622

30 Overlooked Acts of Leadership Courage

We often think of leaders as exhibiting big acts of courage – overcoming huge obstacles and saving lives, metaphorically and literally. Yet I’m amazed and humbled at the courageous things leaders do that we don’t think of as brave. The small courageous things that we overlook every day are the stuff that make up the character of great leaders and the contents of this interesting piece.
http://www.aspire-cs.com/30-overlooked-acts-of-leadership-courage

Simple Leadership Lessons from George Marshall

George Marshall served the United States in many ways. As Chief of Staff of the Army he prepared a quite unprepared army for the Second World War. After the war he served as Secretary of Defence and Secretary of State. He created the Marshall Plan, which President Truman insisted bear Marshall's name, and for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The article outlines the lessons from a life and career like Marshall's that we can learn from the way Marshall did his job and that any boss can apply.
http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2011/06/06/simple-leadership-lessons-from-george-marshall.aspx

Collaborative Conversations Drive Business Differentiation

How dynamic and collaborative are your employee conversations? Are you inviting creative banter to develop innovative solutions? Do you have the technologies in place to support team building among members located throughout the world? If you want to achieve differentiation in the market, employee engagement is truly the key as described in this write up.
http://next-generation-communications.tmcnet.com/topics/dynamic-enterprise/articles/184130-collaborative-conversations-drive-business-differentiation.htm

Team Building using Emotional Intelligence

A common management task is to create a new team. This can be for the launch of a new product or the opening of a new branch. Sometimes an organisation appoints an outside manager as a replacement with the instructions to re-invigorate or turn around the current team.
A common mistake by managers is to forget one of the key rules of life: We like those best that are like ourselves.
http://www.bnetau.com.au/blog/aussierules/team-building-using-emotional-intelligence/7877

15 Reasons why Team building fails so often

http://www.learning3pointzero.com/2011/06/30/reasons-team-building-fails/

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