Leadership Boosts the Bottom Line

The Seventh Annual Hay Group Study finds leadership boosts the bottom line. Best companies outperform the S&P 500 almost 2x over 10 years.  The study was quite comprehensive and the key findings worth reading.  We will focus on a small subset in this post. According to the study, “The Best Companies for Leadership distinguish themselves by [...]

Who Is Your Biggest Competitor?

I am kicking off a series of blog posts talking about challenges I see in coaching successful leaders looking to “up their game”.  We use the Innovative Leadership Fieldbook as the foundation for much of our approach.  This first post talks about leaders who are too competitive within their small group. Our leader is being groomed for [...]

Is Your Leadership Creating or Destroying Value?

Vision and Values – The Antidote to Burnout?

I have had a number of discussions with clients and colleagues lately that point to the profound risk people are facing of burnout and the cost we experience when this happens.  Many of our strongest leaders are saying they cannot maintain the pace and they are looking for other options that will allow them to [...]

5 Benefits of Investing Time in Innovative Leadership

I had lunch with a dear friend and executive yesterday talking about her sense of dread about getting out of bed in the morning and going to work.  She is a very upbeat person so this is a new experience for her.  She believed about 80% of her executive peers had similar dread on a [...]

TechColumbus Leadership Series – 2011 Year in Review

The TechColumbus Leadership Series is an exclusive invitation only event with 50-75 small and large company Founders, CEOs and Presidents.  It is an opportunity for the best and brightest of Columbus leadership to share ideas and discuss best practices. It is a more informal and conversational forum than other events with discussion designed to create [...]

Innovative Leadership Fieldbook Reviewed by Harvard Professor, Jim Ritchie-Duham

Maureen Metcalf & Mark Palmer. . Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. Tucson, AZ: Integral Publishers.  Reviewed by James L. Ritchie-Dunham What is interesting about this book?  One of my favorite papers on “interesting” suggests that showing what seems to be complicated and disparate is actually straightforward and connected is interesting (Davis, 1971).  The world of leadership development [...]

Nicholas Carr – Build the Bridge to the Cloud or be Disrupted by New Technology

Nicholas Carr wrapped up the Wednesday afternoon session at the TechColumbus Tech Tomorrow Conference.  Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. Nicholas authored The Big Switch (2008) and Does IT Matter? (2004). His writings – including columns for many periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Financial Times [...]

Walk Out Walk On – Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze

I attended a discussion this morning led by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze about their latest book about leaders who walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs Who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they [...]

Tony Wells – Business Success Linked to Giving Back

Tony Wells created a family foundation in 2001; providing technology and social entrepreneurship grants to nonprofit organizations after selling a successful business he ran with his wife. He designed and funded the concept of GroundWork Group, a shared services model, enabling nonprofits to advance their mission through strategic use of IT. He has also developed and [...]