Business technology sites such as this one have long exhorted CIOs to take on a bigger leadership role in their companies. It's a capital idea except for one problem: No one seems to know what the ...

How do you define leadership? Maybe your definition of leadership includes setting clear expectations. Communicating. Listening. Motivating, inspiring, guiding, training. The usual suspects. I always ...

Walter Isaacson recently published a biography of Elon Musk, and to no one’s surprise, one of his observations is that Musk—like another of Isaacson’s subjects, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs—builds a ...

In my nearly thirty years as a leader, I’ve focused on setting a clear vision and empowering my team to achieve our goals. We prioritize establishing shared objectives while allowing for flexibility ...

When I was a machine operator, my supervisor knew I wanted to move into management. One day he asked if I wanted to spend time in production control developing a better way to update and deliver job ...

Being a good leader can feel like an abstract goal, but it doesn’t have to be. Here are the four pillars that I believe are the foundation of effective, successful leadership. Great leadership is ...

Amid the mass layoffs of the early 1990s recession, at least one clear pattern emerged: sandwiched between higher-level managers and lower-level workers, middle managers were the most likely to lose ...

Transactional leadership, also known as managerial leadership, is a leadership style where leaders rely on rewards and punishments to achieve optimal job performance from their subordinates. The ...