Leadership Insights

Case Study: Preventing a High-Potential Female Leader from Leaving

Situation A fast-track executive was dissatisfied with her career path and was close to exiting. Her boss was distressed when he learned...

Case Study: Stalling for 12 Years to Transfer the Family Business

Situation Family: Elderly father/founder; two brothers and a sister are active; one brother is a passive owner; elderly mother is an...

Case Study: Parents are Business Partners, But are at Odds

Situation Family: Parents were co‐founders; one son (John) and daughter (Sue) are active; another son (James) is a passive owner....

Case Study: If Your People Survey Results Are Dreadful, What Should You Do?

Situation The setting for this Organizational Effectiveness project was a Firm that spanned across seven states, 120 partners, and 1500...

Case Study: Dad, Mom, and the Boys

Situation Family: A Father in his 60s and two sons in their 30s, both active in the business. Father founded it in 1984. Business: A...

Case Study: A New Director Transformed Into a Leader

Situation This Case Study tells the story of a key contributor who was a well‐respected employee in the area of finance and who had...

Case Study: A Multi-Faceted Entertainment Company

Situation A privately‐held company that was newly acquired by a Fortune 500 company A new president who rose through the ranks of the...

Strategic Planning for Family-Owned Businesses is Vital

To ensure survival in today’s competitive climate, you must look beyond the day-to-day and challenge tradition. Most family business...

Group Dynamics Can Enhance Leadership Development

Many companies have embraced individual executive coaching and mentoring as key approaches to fuel their talent development initiatives....

Interviewing Essentials: A Disciplined Approach to Hiring 'Best-Fits'

Know the five costly hiring mistakes that can thwart obtaining the best talent, and how to identify candidates with the “emotional...

Feet-to-the-Fire...Executive Development

Without an impetus to change and grow, most executives probably won’t. Designing a process that maximizes the probability of achieving...

Learning or Performance Enhancement: Which Is It?

To create a high-performance organization, learning leaders must focus on behavioral and interpersonal strategies. Although the specifics...

Mentoring's Role in Succession Planning

To make the most of mentoring as a succession planning tool, activities must be flexible and focused on the human aspect of the...

Talent Factory

The basic math of high-performing companies is: Profitability is about performance, and performance is about people – one person at a...

Succession Management

In the beginning, corporate America created replacement planning. Its purpose was to fill the void left by a key executive’s untimely...

Cracking the Code of Human Potential

Performance potential is a vast subject that virtually encompasses the whole story of the human race. If you narrow the concept down to...