Leadership News

Leadership Skills Development Increasingly Critical for Technical Professionals
Author, educator and leadership trainer and popular management blogger, Art Petty, introduces a new workshop to help technical professionals successfully transition from a role of individual contributor to first-time leader. Initially piloted at The Data Warehouse Institute World Conference in Chicago during May, 2008, Leadership Mastery for New Technical Leaders offers powerful and practical guidance for technical professionals interested in developing and succeeding as a leader.

Leadership Qualities - Characteristics of Leadership
One of the best books on leadership is Good to Great by Jim Collins. Collins researched a number of companies that were able to sustain outstanding growth over a period of 15 years while their competitors grew moderately, stayed flat, or lost money.

Facing Organizational Change? Three Leadership Skills Will Help Your Change Management Efforts
Change in today's business world is inevitable and the key to success is adaptability. Managers who spend enough time and effort on people in the organization rather than trying to make change happen to the organization will manage the process more effectively, says Omega Performance in an upcoming webcast on July 30, 2008.

Executive Leadership Skills - Leadership Quotes
Are leaders born or made? Most people would say both  part nature, part nurture. Great leaders have innate qualities of integrity, humility, fairness, vision, and determination. And they have the training and experience to lead with greatness.

Barack Obama Falls Just Short of John F. Kennedy's Leadership Qualities, According to Handwriting Expert
Bart Baggett posts a rarely-seen before handwritten note by presidential candidate Barack Obama. Baggett gives two thumbs up to the presidential candidate's penmanship... comparing his leadership qualities to John F. Kennedy.