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Hire your replacement

Feb 3, 2010 8:54am

Leaders at successful companies focus significant time and resources to hire the right people. The money and effort they spend pays big dividends as the company progresses and matures. The companies that excel at hiring the right people seem to take this one step further: at all levels the leaders...

Book Review: The Right Leader

Jan 26, 2010 5:48am

“How we go about doing the things we choose to do or are called upon to do is what makes a leader the right leader.” In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit, author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with...

A new Leadership Development Carnival

Jan 4, 2010 6:30am

The Lead on Purpose blog is featured in the January Leadership Development Carnival of Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog. This first Leadership Development Carnival in 2010 provides links to 50 posts — what Dan calls “the Best of 2009.” The links include posts on topics such as building better leaders, measuring employee engagement and...

Five myths about leadership

Dec 28, 2009 11:01pm

True leadership principles endure the test of time regardless of the economy or world affairs. The more you practice them the more they become part of your life. One of the best ways to understand principles is to understand their opposites. John Maxwell — author of the book The 21 Irrefutable Laws of...

What matters in 2010?

Dec 15, 2009 10:35pm

With just a few weeks left in 2009 you have no-doubt spent time thinking about the events of the past year and the growth and changes that have resulted. What matters in 2010? Seth Godin, marketing guru and thought leader, did a cool project where he brought together more than seventy...

The price of leadership

Dec 10, 2009 9:36pm

The topic of whether leaders are born or made comes up often and has created many interesting conversations. In their recent Wall Street Journal article Do You Really Want to be a Leader?, Preston C. Bottger and Jean-Louis Barsoux address the question “are leaders born or are they made?” with...

Capturing ideas

Nov 26, 2009 9:59am

Ideas are the seeds from which all greatness grows. Every book and every company started from the spark of an idea. Ideas come on their own time and in their own way. Those who understand this principle find a sure path to success. The key to benefiting from ideas is to...

Battle of the bloggers

Nov 16, 2009 9:42pm

Tomorrow I have the opportunity to speak at the AIPMM Battle of the Bloggers and tell the people why Lead On Purpose is the top product management blog. Given the level of competition among the participating bloggers and the many other great blogs “out there” it’s a daunting task to...

Book Review: The Three Laws of Performance

Nov 10, 2009 7:12am

“One of the flaws of management in this day and age is that we fragment accountabilities and then everyone focuses on their own piece.” In The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life, authors Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan discuss laws that govern individual,...

Three steps to the next big opportunity

Nov 4, 2009 10:26pm

One of the keys to career progress (advancement) is identifying and taking advantage of new opportunities. Most of the time the new opportunities are not obvious; after all, when things become obvious they are usually past the “opportunity” stage. The crucial habit for progress is watching, learning and becoming aware...