Not all great leaders are great managers and not all great managers are great leaders. So what sets them apart? Check out this infographic for a comparison.

A roadmap for increasing your influence at work.

Nudge theory summary, heuristics explanation, nudge history, extensions and connections to motivation, change-management and leadership, and nudge glossary

What does “leadership” mean? Many people have different definitions of the word (this is a great article on “30 Ways to Define Leadership“), but for the sake of this post, I would say leadership is the ability to influence others to move towards positive results.  What is crucial about this idea is that leadership can happen from any position, in many aspects of what any organization does.

We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives — getting into better shape, building a successful business, raising a wonderful…

A focus on goals rather than behaviour is creating problems in the workplace.

VOICES FROM THE FIELD:
This “Voices from the Field” explores the potential advantages of shifting from a traditional leadership model focused on one person or a small cadre to one where authority is shared among all who do the work.

Human beings hunger for superheroes.

Trust at work is critical, but it can be difficult to pin down and address. Trust expert Daniel McAllister highlighted this challenge when he presented his initial research on the subject in 1995. McAllister opened with a quote from the book Behavior in Organizations. 

“If I have one piece of advice for would-be leaders, it is read some history,” writes historian Margaret MacMillan.

“You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it.”

Phil Jackson's 11 Principles of Leadership on Phil Jackson's book Eleven Rings