Entries by Susan Harper

The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers & Agile Companies

Jeff Wald, founder of Work Market shares his insights in the podcast The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers & Agile Companies and the following article. Some people lead with their heart, some with their head.  Some leaders are “my way or the highway”, some are “we all move forward together”.  Every leader has […]

The Creative Mindset: Mastering Skills that Empower Innovation

Jeff DeGraff, author of The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills that Power Innovation, shares his insight on the podcast The Creative Mindset: Mastering Skills that Empower Innovation. The article is an edited excerpt from his book. Regrettably, swaggering catchphrases like “go big or go home” are commonly associated with creative thinking. Accordingly, most of […]

Seven Questions You Can Use to Move from Manager to a Leader

Jonathan Reitz provided this week’s article as a companion to his podcast Management Vs Leadership: How Coaching Skills Make a Difference. This is part of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit (WBECS) interview series. Many careers get built around the mysterious difference between a manager and a leader. Don’t believe me? Google how to […]

Conflict Strategies for Nice People

Liane Davey, as part of the World Business and Executive Coach Summit (WBECS) series, shares this blog with the companion podcast, The Good Fight: Using Productive Conflict. We’re not having enough conflict. When we avoid issues that we need to address, we get into what I call “conflict debt.” What is conflict debt? Essentially, each […]

How Nonprofit CEOs and Board Chairs Can Cultivate Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Dr. Christopher Washington, as part of the International Leadership Association’s series, shares this article, initially published on Forbes.com. as a companion to his podcast JEDI SPACE Principles for CEOs and Board Chairs. The pandemic lockdown of 2020 and 2021 presented (and continues to present) multiple sources of stress and associated symptoms in the U.S. population, […]

DEI: Needed Conversations and Understanding

This guest post, Why Strong Leaders Always Put a Focus on Promoting Business Transparency with Employees was provided by Jori Hamilton to supplement this week’s podcast. Laura Morgan Roberts and Courtney McCluney, as part of the International Leadership Association’s interview series, share their insights about DEI: Needed Conversations and Understanding. In a leadership position, transparency […]

Building Cyber Resiliency

Cybersecurity refers to a series of measures put in place to prevent threat actors from penetrating IT infrastructure. But implementing such measures merely reduces the risk of a major attack. Today, organizations have to use a wide range of IT equipment, the internet, and mobile devices to conduct business. The ever-expanding attack surfaces make 100% prevention impossible, […]