Leadership Training, Personal Development, & Life Hacks

by Steve Farber A while back, I received a distressed email from Ken, a young manager at a high-tech company. Ken and I had never met, but he had read my first two books and had done his best to apply the ideas and practices of Extreme Leadership to the way he’d led his team. [...]

Dwight Eisenhower, when contemplating the Herculean effort to plan for Operation Overlord (the code name for the invasion of Normandy and northwest Europe during WWII) said, “Plans are nothing.  Planning is everything.”   His considered view was that while both are necessary, plans by their very nature are nothing but static documents, yet planning is a [...]

As many of you know, I have been doing this leadership training blog, Cultivate Greatness for a little over 3 years.  Many of you may not know, but this site ranks in the top 10 on Google for the term Leadership Training.   My other company, Advangel, is a social media / search / interactive [...]

by Kate Mercer Great leadership is one of the keys to long-term organizational success; so how come there seems to be such a shortage? In the corridors of political power, and in the boardrooms of large and small organizations, we regularly hear the questions: “Where is the inspired leadership we crave?”, “Where is our next [...]