Leadership Reality

A great deal of leadership development is like trying to teach a bull to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the bull. So this is the NO BULL zone.

Your source for reality and research checked information.

Jul 22, 2010, Honest and open matters

In my first managerial job, my boss sat with me and told me that I was an excellent individual contributor but that as a manager, I was only average. At

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Jul 13, 2010, Leadership Qualities Conversation

Leadership Qualities conversation

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Mar 13, 2010, Using layoffs

Looks to me like companies are still using layoffs to handle people who don't do their jobs. Now though they've gone though all those and good people are

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Feb 17, 2010, Leaders Stepping Up!

I worked with an excellent leader who asserted his managerial courage & utilized open communication on a day to day basis - when the conversations were

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Jan 18, 2010, A recruiter comments

I think that managers still avoid conflict to the point where they would prefer to fire and replace employees thinking that the next person will

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Jan 15, 2010, Management Skills vs Leadership Skills

Can you explain the difference between management skills and leadership skills? I want to promote one of my top individual contributors. My company

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Jan 13, 2010, Agreeableness In Leaders -- The Too Agreeble Leader

HR frequently takes hits from managers for obstructing firing people with performance issues. HR is usually exercising good stewardship by following processes that keep the company ethical and legal.

It's time some managers stood up and took their medicine as well. There are a significant number of managers who do not address performance issues. The manager may be uncomfortable with conflict, or place more importance on being liked than being effective. These leaders are too agreeable and tolerate sub par performance. We've all heard stories of problem employees being transfer repeatedly rather than having a leader confront poor performance.

Both managers and HR need to step up and be assertive in addressing poor performance. The collective good suffers when poor performance is tolerated.

Jan 4, 2010, Client Endorsements

Client Recommendations

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Nov 9, 2009, Products

Products: e-journal, books, CDs

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Oct 16, 2009, Leadership Traits: Born and Made

Leadership Traits: Born and Made

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