Today is like no other time in history. The unprecedented outcome of the coronavirus pandemic across the world means that economies are failing and there is more unemployment than in most people’s living memory. Now is the time for leadership; now is the time for people to move out of their comfort zones and do Read More >
Leadership
Build On Your Strengths — Avoid The Five Fatal Flaws
There is one major thing to remember when you want to succeed in your chosen profession, and in your specific job; you need to know your strengths and build on them. Does this sound like familiar advice, or is it contrary to what you have always been told? It’s more likely to be the latter; Read More >
How to Become a Level 5 Leader – Part 1
by Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2004 Jim Collins discovered when analyzing the research for his book “Good to Great,” that the leaders who ran the “great” companies during the transition from good-to-great were all “Level 5” leaders. For those of you not familiar with “Good to Great,” the qualifying criteria was that a company had Read More >
How to Become a Level 5 Leader – Part 2
Last month I wrote that Jim Collins found in his research for his book “Good to Great” that all the great companies had Level 5 leaders at the helm during the transition from good to great. These leaders “embodied a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will.” This month, I’ll outline five preliminary steps Read More >
What You Can’t Learn at Harvard About Leadership
Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2006 At the urging of many of my clients, I recently wrote and published a booklet titled, “What You Can’t Learn About Leadership At Harvard: 100+ tips learned in the trenches.” This booklet came about because my clients kept saying, “Carl, you should write that suggestion/tip down.” A couple of them Read More >
Handing Over The Reins – The Founder-Board Dilemma: Why It’s So Hard And What To Do About It
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D., copyright 2007 For this month’s briefing I’m providing you with the article I wrote that was just published in the 2007 Q1 issue of American Venture Magazine. _______ EVERYBODY KNOWS that it is inevitable for almost all founders to pass on the management of their company to a later-stage professional manager. Read More >
When Times are Tough, the Tough Become Better Leaders – Four Lessons for Tough Times
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D., © 2008 It’s Deja Vu all over again. We’re into another down turn of the economic cycle. The operative word is “cycle.” Unfortunately, many business people forget that and either panic and begin to take rash actions or act like deer in head lights (frozen with fear). I published my very Read More >
What Do Successful Leaders Appeal to First – Heart or Mind?
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D. © 2008 If you ask any successful salesperson, they will tell you that all things being equal, (competing product and/or services) you need to appeal to the emotional side of your prospect’s mind if you want to win them over. Salespeople who develop a good relationship with their prospects will have Read More >
Free Agents: The Challenge of Leading Top Performers in a Global Economy
By Carl Robinson, Ph.D., © 2008 It used to be easy being a leader. You gave orders and people followed them. If they didn’t do what you told them to do, you fired them and easily found a willing replacement, anxiously looking for work and willing to put his life in your care. Believe it Read More >
The Ethical CEO
The Ethical CEO By Carl Robinson, PhD. © 2010 Do CEOs care how history will judge them? Do they care if they leave a positive legacy, one where employees, customers and the community at large remember them with respect and admiration? Judging from the media reports of some high-profile CEOs, one would think that CEOs Read More >