Articles Index

Indicators of Leadership Potential
In my many years of observing leaders, I have noticed a number of signs that a person has high potential for corporate leadership. A wide cognitive "bandwidth" - the capacity and inclination to see things in a broader context - is an earmark of a CEO. Other signs of high-potential leaders include integrity, decisiveness, drive, aggression, and setting direction. There are many more indicators of high-potential leaders. Learn more.

Leadership Values and Ethics
Leaders know what they value. They also recognize the importance of ethical behavior. The best leaders exhibit both their values and their ethics in their leadership style and actions. Your leadership ethics and values should be visible because you live them in your actions every single day. Learn more about ethics and values.

Leadership Job Interview Questions
The following sample job interview questions about leadership enable you to assess your candidate’s skill in leadership. Feel free to use these job interview questions in your own candidate interviews.

Preventing Predictable Decision Making Errors
Predictable errors in decision making are preventable errors. And a few simple techniques, like those below, can help you steer clear of the most common wrong turns in decision making. They can get you to your go point, that decisive moment when the essential information has been gathered, the pros and cons weighed, and the time has come to get off the fence and make your decision. Learn more about effective, responsible decision making.

Secrets of Leadership Success
Key leadership success secrets set great leaders apart from so-so leaders in organizations. Leadership style is learned from mentors, learned in seminars and exists as part of a person's innate personal leadership skill set developed over years, and existing, possibly from birth. Nature or nurture is a question often asked about leadership. I answer, "yes," because I believe the combination of natural leadership skills and nurture through leadership development defines leadership style.

Leadership Rewards and Recognition
A leader makes other people feel important and appreciated. The leader excels at creating opportunities to provide rewards, recognition and thanks to his or her staff. A leader creates a work environment in which people feel important and appreciated. Learn more about rewards and recognition in this fifth article in my Leadership Success series.

Leadership Inspiration
What makes a leader inspirational? The ability to inspire people to reach great heights of performance and success is a skill leaders need. Passion, purpose, listening and meaning help make a leader inspirational. Learn more about how to enable inspiration and motivation in the people you lead.

Leadership Vision
Leaders have vision. They share a dream and direction that other people want to share and follow. The leadership vision goes beyond your written organizational mission statement and your vision statement. The vision of leadership permeates the workplace and is manifested in the actions, beliefs, values and goals of your organization’s leaders. Read more about leadership vision.

Lead the Team: How to be the Person Others Follow
Leaders are hard to find. They exhibit a unique blend of charisma, vision and character traits that attract people to follow them. They exhibit the other nine characteristics around which this article series was developed. Successful leadership produces successful followership. Find out more.