Executive recruiting firm Egon Zehnder International learned a lot while conducting more than 25,000 management appraisals over the course of five years. The company shares its insights in the white ...

There are a number of competency models that are used to guide leadership development efforts in businesses, in nonprofit organizations, and in colleges and universities. Most of these models focus on ...

Purdue’s Leadership & Professional Development Competencies were established to provide a cross-discipline model of leadership development for all Boilermakers. The 20 competencies were established ...

What makes an effective leader? While each individual boss has unique qualities that set him or her apart, there are several core competencies consistently exhibited by the best leaders. Sunnie Giles, ...

When Hewlett-Packard merged with Compaq, one of the most challenging elements was integrating their two unique corporate cultures. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2001, an HP executive told ...

Traditional leadership was based on control and supervision. Leadership 4.0, by contrast, is defined by its ability to manage ...

You’ve probably heard and read about the importance of organizational culture in determining the success of the enterprise. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” and similar declarations have been ...

Effective leaders require competency in core skills. Expertise in core competencies associated with leadership roles typically enable a person to lead others, develop ...

What makes an effective leader? This question is a focus of my research as an organizational scientist, executive coach, and leadership development consultant. Looking for answers, I recently ...

PLC frames its curriculum in terms of broad competencies that are the keystones to our leadership education because they cut across every profession, academic discipline, and human endeavor where ...