The New Face of Leadership The New Face of Leadership

Too often, conflict in the workplace hides like a smoldering fire, waiting to burst into a roaring inferno with the addition of just the tiniest bit of fuel.  Everyone can feel the tension, but no one wants to address it.  Eventually the conflict begins to affect performance, morale, and employee r

Women CEOs: Bold Enough to Be a Woman? Virginia M Rometty, new CEO of IBM, joins Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, to be among the elite 2 percent of women who hold CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies. We still have a long way to go, but now that we see more wom

By Ann Lee, CMBA  Lt Colonel, USAF (Retired)      The best advice I ever got as a supervisor was from a very wise flight superintendent.  He told me that if I would  take care of the people, the mission would take care of itself.  He mentioned this to me as he observed me in a moment of insanity fra

Over the past two decades, many organizations have undertaken some form of diversity initiative. In fact, it is estimated that more than 85 percent of Fortune 500 companies have such efforts underway. However, even with a significant commitment of resources?time, money, people and infrastructure?ma

Many managers lack fundamental training in managing people. But, even more importantly, managers lack the values, sensitivity, and awareness needed to interact effectively all day long with people. Skills and techniques are easier to teach, but values, beliefs, and attitudes are much harder to teac

Moving from individual contributor to front-line manager for the first time is a significant transition.  Today's business environment often fails to provide the support and leadership development training necessary to aid the front-line leaders during this important transition, often with negative

     By Ann Lee, CMBA      I like lists and projects.  I'm not sure why, except that the existence of both usually helps me feel as if I'm making progress--simply because they exist.  However, I'm constantly reminded that  busyness and progress are not synonymous and that some things--especially imp