Trial by Fire

Pat Galagan

If there were a reality TV show called Extreme Leadership Development, Mercer CEO Michele Burns would be its star. Burns came to her current job by way of Delta Airlines during and after 9/11, and Mirant, an energy company she led out of Chapter 11. Not long after she t... More »

Expanding the Role of Succession Planning

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Robert Kleinsorge

Spurred on by global growth, global competition, and the recent economic crisis, companies are restructuring themselves more frequently and more rapidly. Such frequent dismantling and reassembling of a company's organizational structure creates gaps in leadership at all... More »

Project Leadership and the Art of Managing Relationships

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Barbara Anderson

A tremendous amount of information and resources are available to today's project manager. Much has been written and documented about the craft and complexity of effective project management. If you conduct a search at a book retailer, you'll discover more than 2,500 pu... More »

Those Who Lead, Mentor

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Lois J. Zachary

The first decade of the century is behind us, and we are on the threshold of a new one, having learned many lessons about mentoring and leadership during the last 10 years. Perhaps the most significant is that study after study has shown that the majority of leaders att... More »

A Leadership Skills Gap?

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Dean Smith

As leaders struggle to ensure the long-term viability of their organizations in a volatile economy, a recent study from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) reports that a glaring gap exists between the leadership skills organizations have now and the ones they will... More »