Featured Article...
SUCCESSFUL GROWTH STRATEGIES, COACHING AND ASSESSMENT OF LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Written by Daniel J. Booth, Ed.D., CEO, The Booth Company
 Compelling evidence about which leadership
skills are especially vital to successful growth strategies has just been released in a new study of 300+ C-level leaders and heads of operating units. While nothing new about the
fundamentals of executive leader competencies was discovered, the specifics that are associated with different types of strategies appear to add new knowledge that coaches can draw upon with greater confidence.
This summary will highlight the challenges of three kinds of organizational growth and three sets of executive skills that were associated with success in each strategy. For a comparison of these fundamentals to our Executive Leadership survey...
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Book Review...
A WHOLE NEW MIND
Written by Daniel Pink, New York: Riverhead Books (2005). 234 pages.
Reviewed by Diane Byington, Ph.D.
 Daniel Pink opens our minds and shows us new possibilities in this entertaining book about how the right brain can contribute in a world that has long been devoted to left brain thinking. He begins by reviewing how the two halves of the brain work: the left hemisphere is sequential, analytical, verbal, and detail-oriented, while the right hemisphere processes information simultaneously, specializes in context, understands metaphor and nonverbal cues, and synthesizes the big picture. Pink's thesis is that right-brain directed thinking, so often disdained and dismissed, will increasingly determine who soars and who stumbles.
He explains the reasons behind the shift from left to right brain dominance: abundance, Asia, and automation. In our abundance, we acknowledge that our left brains have made us rich. We can buy just about anything we want at a minimal price. This puts a premium on...
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