As I recently drove from Yale to a friend’s home in CT, my mind wandered to conversation I had with a colleague. She had asked me a wonderful and provocative question: How is your leadership approach (eXpansive Leadership Model – XLM) better than all the others? After all, there are many leadership models and . . . → Read More: “How Is Your Leadership Approach Better?”
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 2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Apply the XLM, Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, Leadership, Leading managing paradox, Managing paradox, XLM Everyone cheered when Randy was promoted to lead the new business unit. Senior executives applauded his strategic, innovative and collaborative skills. His boss was pleased with his performance in the new position, until… Sales slipped and tough decisions needed to be made. That’s when troubling signs of Randy’s “lopsided leadership” surfaced. He was slow . . . → Read More: Crimes We Commit Against Our Careers! One comment - (Comments are closed) Apply the XLM, Coaching, Commanding embrace ambiguity and paradox, leadership career, Leadership general, Leading managing paradox, XLM Greg was organized, likable, and communicated well. He was promoted to director of finance after three years as a mid-level manager. When I interviewed his managers, they said that they always knew what to do because Greg excelled at clarifying objectives and expectations. Team meetings ran like a Swiss watch. His managers . . . → Read More: The eXpansive Leadership Model (XLM) – – – – – – How eXceptional Leaders Achieve eXtraordinary Results Under Pressure On average, fifty percent of newly hired employees leave a job within the first seven months. The cost of this turnover is to be between 48 percent and 61 percent of the employee’s salary. How much does this expensive problem cost you? Here are 11 practical tips that will help you improve . . . → Read More: Eleven Tips to Interview and Hire the Best The cost of turnover for a typical employee is between 48 percent and 61 percent of the employee’s salary, as discussed in a previous blog ( http://davejensenonleadership.blogspot.com/2009/06/six-hiring-mistakes-good-leaders-make.html ). In that blog, I also revealed the six most common mistakes leaders make during the interviewing and hiring process. These errors are why an average of . . . → Read More: How Leaders Interview and Hire the Best |
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