Topic: Teams

How to Lead Without Being There by Thomas Kolditz

In this article, Thomas Kolditz points out how growth-oriented leaders make their intent clear and then let the team on the ground make the decisions.

In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It

In this short interview, Thomas Kolditz shows how extreme life-and-death situations can offer profound lessons for leaders in any setting

Harvard Professor Linda Hill — Leaders must be Game Changers

In this short clip, Harvard Professor Linda Hill explains how great leaders create innovative organizations by adopting a new way of thinking that consists less than in years past on setting the vision, and more on influencing their people to ever-higher levels of productivity and results.

Don’t let your expertise get in the way of your full potential

Stephen Shapiro presents and answers your questions LIVE on How to Out-Innovate the Competition on Wednesday, April18, 2012.

The Power of Idealistic-Realism: How Great Leaders Inspire and Transform

On April 1st, 2011, Doug Conant’s article on The Power of Idealistic-Realism was published on www.HBR.org. “An idealistic vision is what motivates all of us” writes Doug Conant who will be joining us on March 13th for a live broadcast followed by an interactive Q&A session on TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments.

The Action is in the Interaction by Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard

For Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard, co-authors of  New York Times bestseller TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments, the action is in the interaction. It is less about the big issues and more about the hundreds, even thousands, of interactive moments in time that offer you a chance to make a…

8 Leadership Lessons from Tom Brady

Why Tom Brady?  Let us explain, Linkage is a global company, with offices in over 17 different countries, but our headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts, just 32 miles from Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots.  We will admit it—that makes some of us a bit biased when it comes to football.    …

Are you a SuperLeader?

Just as Superman has Kryptonite, so do SuperLeaders. Sometimes SuperLeaders can fall pray towards “the superhero complex.”

Goose Bumps by Abri Brickner

As one of the co-Program Managers of the Institute, when I looked out into the sea of participants during our opening remarks I got my first dose of goose bumps.

The end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

So after 18 years of forced secrets and lying, military personnel are now allowed to be open about their sexuality without fear of termination or discrimination.