The Cost Shift: Perks to Price

• “How high can I go?” was the question of the ladder-climbers of the greedy 80s. Then it evolved to something a bit more human as “How high will others go with a little help?”
• These ladder-holders recently became ladder-extenders, and started positing themselves the question: “how hi...

Leadership, by definition, means challenging others to go beyond their comfort zone, and people don’t like to be uncomfortable.

You need to redeploy your attention and interest toward the latter: as important as goals are, growth should come before them.

The four areas you need to focus on the most are the following: attitude, leadership skills, developing strong relationships, and equipping ot...

• To learn something new. Ask yourself, “When’s the last time I learned something for the first time?”
• To try something different. Ask yourself, “When’s the last time I did something for the first time?”
• To find something better. Ask yourself, “When’s the ...

1. Continually learn, unlearn and relearn. Update yourself constantly.
2. Value yesterday but live in today. Focus on current challenges, and leave the past glories to the past.
3. Rely on speed but thrive on timing. 
4. ...

Thirty years ago, being a leader was all about being a soloist, being the one who can do everything on his own and doesn’t need a backing orchestra.

Today leadership is much more akin to being a conductor: the one who directs everyone in the right directio...

This is the ability and willingness to make a leadership change that will positively enhance organizational and personal growth.

Leadershift is the act of nimbly adapting one’s leadership in the midst of rapid change.

The leaders of tomorrow are the leaders who connect today: they are trustful and talkative, they listen, they ask questions, and they have answers.

Become one of them, become a connector.

There are three kinds of people in the world:

• those who merely do a job
• those who want to have a career
• those who have a calling.

Great leaders can only be born out of those in the third category. So, it’s not about becoming a l...

Unlike trained leaders who both act and teach following by-the-book guidelines, transformational leaders encourage and inspire people around them to become more through their very existence. 

So be the change you want to see in the world.

In a fast-changing world, maintaining best practices should be balanced with creating, and leaders should teach their employees to stop thinking in terms of “I do what I have always done” and start accepting as a motto the “creative zone” adage: “I attempt to think what I have never ...

Diversity, according to Malcolm Forbes, is “the art of thinking independently together.”

And it is the hallmark of a great leader.