The Why and How of a Leader’s Decision Making

Many articles and blogs on leadership effectiveness tend to offer a series of action steps that describe best practices for leadership and decision making.  Here is an example of such a list I read recently: Define desired outcomes Identify potential obstacles to those outcomes Design and implement right solutions. Though such a list is perfectly accurate and useful in the …

Curiosity and the Transactional Leader

The most challenging aspect of training up leadership in an organization is in the work of emotional intelligence.  A leader’s emotional intelligence is tied directly to their ability to create influence and to build a high functioning culture.  In the previous blog we discussed how emotional intelligence is born from developing an inner observer; seven broad steps were suggested to …