In “Pygmalion” George Bernard Shaw wrote “The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves. It’s how she’s treated.” Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe based their famous musical “My Fair Lady” around Shaw’s concept. If it’s good enough for Lerner and Loewe and GBS, maybe you should consider the [...]

In 1978 my company was invited to create a management development programme for one of Honda’s overseas subsidiaries, so I set out to learn about the Honda culture. My job was to embed the core culture of Honda into a training and development programme that fitted into the local culture. I found it a fascinating [...]

Intellectual heavyweights John Ralston Saul, Naomi Klein, Margaret MacMillan and Adam Gopnik discuss “A Crisis in Leadership” at the Globe and Mail Open House Festival. The panelists reflect on what constitutes a good leader and why some leaders fail while others thrive. Journalist Carol Off is the moderator.

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No one will ever be able to convince me that the most challenging component of Project Management is the science behind it. The way in which we need to pull people together to be a high performance team over a relatively short period of time is the most challenging part of Project Management. This article [...]

Transformational leadership theory is all about leadership that creates positive change in thefollowers whereby they take care of each other’s interests and act in the interests of the group as a whole. James MacGregor Burns first brought the concept of transformational leadership to prominence in his book Leadership [1978]:
“Essentially the leader’s task is consciousness-raising on a wide plane. The [...]