Accelerating Competitive Advantage with AI: How Organisations are Moving from Experimentation to Business Impact

This blog is provided by Dr. Jennifer Barth and her team, as a companion to her podcast Accelerating Competitive Advantage with Artificial Intelligence. Research Overview We collaborated with Microsoft for the third year running during summer 2019, to explore the current state of AI across four specific industries, retail, manufacturing, health and financial services within […]

Leadership Trends: Lead The Disruption 2020

The following blog is a republish of an article appearing in Forbes written by Maureen Metcalf. It is a companion to the Trends podcast titled Leadership Trends: Lead the Disruption 2020.   To learn more about the 2020 Trends, click here. During a time of ongoing organizational disruption, I encourage leaders to explore how rapid […]

International Leadership Association Names Maureen Metcalf as a Fellow

The Fellows program bestows honorary recognition to select distinguished professionals. Phoenix, AZ — (SBWIRE) — 09/02/2019 — The International Leadership Association (ILA), appointed Maureen Metcalf, Founder, and CEO of the Innovative Leadership Institute as an ILA Fellow for two years commencing July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2021. The Fellows program bestows honorary recognition to […]

Building Teams By Doing Meaningful Work

This blog is a guest post by Simon Mac Rory as a companion to the podcast where he talks about his latest book, Wake-up and Smell the Coffee: An Imperative for Teams. Alison Green, advice columnist, consultant, and author of the Ask Manager website, had a very interesting article on the BBC news website recently entitled […]

What Do Leaders DO to build “Level 5” Organizations?

This blog is a companion to the podcast with Geoff Fitch and Terri O’Fallon, Is There Such A Thing As A ‘Level 5’/Teal Organization -Part 2. Geoff Fitch, MA, wrote this post. As a Level 5 leader, we know our personal development is key to our ability to meet the complex challenges we face in today’s […]

Proven Path to Leadership Maturity and Effectiveness

This post is a companion to the podcast featuring Mike Morrow-Fox talking about leadership maturity and vertical development to build the leadership qualities required to lead large, complex organizations and those that aspire to make the greatest impact. Forbes Coaches Council first published the following article in August 2016. Future trends indicate complexity, accelerated change, and […]

Four Common Types of Difficult Employees And How To Deal With Them

This post is a companion to one of our podcasts featuring Mike Morrow-Fox talking about bad bosses and their impact on organizations.  One of the managers’ jobs is to create an environment that promotes employee engagement and produces organizational results. Difficult employees adversely impact the team members who work with them. Managers must find productive […]

Strengthening Thinking as a Mechanism to Building Resilience

This blog post is the companion to a podcast with Mark Palmer and Belinda Gore, Building Resilience, A Key Foundation For Change. We encourage you to take our free online resilience assessment. As the person who curates this blog, I try to balance sharing the work of our radio show guests and other thought leaders […]

Belinda Gore Enneagram

Organizations Have Personality Types: How Do You Fit?

This guest blog was written as a companion to the podcast with Belinda Gore,  Building Leadership Self-Awareness Using Personality Type. In the interview and the blog, Belinda explores how she uses the Enneagram to help leaders build the self-awareness that enables them to perform effectively.  As a reminder from a prior post, when the 65-member […]

Avoiding Decision Disasters: Integrating the Gut and the Head

This guest blog was written as a companion to the podcast Interview with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky’s Tools for Avoiding Disastrous Decisions. In the interview and the blog, Gleb explores how we can balance intuition and data-based decision-making to achieve the most effective business outcomes. He explores some common misconceptions and offers recommendations to avoid them. […]

Level 5 Strategist Leadership for Complex Adaptive Collectives

Level Five “Strategist” Leadership for Complex Adaptive Groups

This blog is a companion to the interview with Terri O’Fallon. What is A Level 5 / Teal Organization? Terri O’Fallon, PhD, wrote this post. The world is a complex place. We are connected and interconnected in ways from which we can no longer retreat with the Internet, and the contemporary ways make us visible […]

Leader Type

Leveraging Personality Type to Improve Leadership Effectiveness

This guest blog was written as a companion to the podcast with Belinda Gore, Building Leadership Self-Awareness Using Personality Type. In the interview and the blog, Belinda explores how she uses the Enneagram to help leaders build the self-awareness that enables them to perform effectively. This post contains some excerpts from the Innovative Leadership Fieldbook […]