Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 88 – Wendy Appel, The Enneagram Specialist

Leading Ideas + News

• The Changing Face of Leadership | Chief Learning Officer 2012/07/09
  Leadership has always been about moving an organization from point A to point B. That objective remains, but escalating expectations and declining resources are changing the rules of the leadership development game.
• The Role of Followers in Leadership Development | Chief Learning Officer 2012/07/09
  The onus is on leaders to create engaged, fulfilled followers who can help them drive change and achieve company goals. But to do that, leaders must first believe in their own strategy.
• How PwC Keeps Its Diversity Leadership Fresh | Diversity Executive 2012/07/09
  By limiting its CDOs to two- or three-year terms, PwC regularly infuses the position with new talent.
• Leaders Gone Wrong: How Authenticity Goes Too Far | Chief Learning Officer, Solutions for Enterprise Productivity 2012/06/23
  In developing leaders, authenticity, while invaluable, can become an excuse for verbal abuse and laziness.
• Learn From Failure | Chief Learning Officer 2012/05/13
  Instead, learning leaders should look for areas where calculated failures will bear dividends — both individually, in terms of leadership development, and organizationally — as a means to spark innovation, growth and organizational performance
• Fanatic Discipline and Productive Paranoia: Notes From ASTD Day One 2012/05/13
  The real crisis we are facing – whether it’s in our organizations or in society at large – isn’t the continued sluggish economy. It’s a lack of transformational leaders.
• 5 Ways to Teach Your Millennials to Lead | Diversity Executive 2012/04/18
  Many of the innate qualities millennials bring to the table could make them excellent leaders in the future, given the right preparation now.
• MBAs Attract Current and Former Soldiers - WSJ.com 2012/04/18
  With leadership skills honed in battle and experience shouldering far more responsibility than their civilian peers, many former military officers are enrolling in M.B.A. programs to get one of the key attributes they lack—knowledge of the business world.
• Op-ed against Goldman Sachs a wake-up call (to all leaders) 2012/04/01
  If your employees were to write an op-ed about you or your organization, what might they say? What do you aspire to have them say, and how are you leading with your actions to get those results?
• Teach Trust First - The Ethical Workplace Blog 2012/03/29
  Leaders increasingly lack the skills needed to recognize and address employee discontent, which allows decisions and actions to appear unfair or potentially illegal even when they may not be.