Great Leaders are Polite

I read the Declaration of Independence today and I was struck with how polite it is, not just for a call to revolution, but polite for any context or purpose. 

Don't Try This At Home... Yet

Turning good advice into performance improvement takes more than you might think. 

You learn about leadership because you want to get better at leading.  Good advice and ideas about leadership are interesting, but not useful until you put them into action.  The problem is that there is a world of difference between knowing what to do and being able to do it.  So before you try it on the job, ask yourself five questions:

The Mythology of Leadership

In their article, The Problem with Leadership Development, Curphy, Hogan and Kaiser offer a great summary of what is wrong with leadership development.  But, as I read it, I couldn’t help but think that the core of the problem is that we confuse charisma with leadership.