Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell might have a distinguished set of credentials – former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, four-star general, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – but at his core, he’s a great storyteller. As the keynote speaker for The Premier Business
I have a particular issue with the rigid leadership style – not just because it can cost the organization in lost opportunities, but also because it is like a fast-moving virus that can infect quite a few of the people who work for a rigid leader. After all, rigid leaders
In my last blog post, I highlighted the importance of competence, flexibility, and a team orientation as key building blocks of change leadership. These are fundamental for a leader to create the environment for positive change and to lead the organization in sustained effective action. It’s not easy to reach
Change is hard. Let’s face it - we all have a comfort zone and moving out of it can be difficult to say the least. The change process is hard because it forces us to create and/or adjust to something that is different from our current – in effect, we
What skills are needed to thrive and sustain in today’s modern workforce? I recently reached out to a few of our thought leaders within SAS to seek their advice and opinions about broad skills that will sustain you in any career. I was looking forward to hearing what they had
Dan Thorpe’s session at the M2010 data mining conference was not what I expected to find at a gathering of data analysts, statisticians and data mining professionals. No mentions of second order polynomial response functions, no mathematical formulas, just a straightforward discussion with a seasoned leader about how data mining
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was this morning’s keynote presenter at the SAS Global Forum Executive Conference in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference is, “Leading with Confidence in an Era of Uncertainty,” which can certainly apply to the commercial sector as well as political leaders. She
I recently re-read Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence by Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee, and was struck by how much of my time I get caught between the poles of trying to be a "Commanding leader" or a "Democratic leader" (or, sometimes, any kind of leader at all).
