You wouldn’t have thought it, would you? That Sepp Blatter offers us valuable lessons in leadership—but he does. His leadership of FIFA has repeatedly attracted significant negative sentiments in the global news media, and most ordinary folks detect a strong whiff of...
As I explain in Career Dreams to Career Success, “You can’t possibly be a half-decent professional without the right technical skills. But to be effective and thrive, you must have highly-developed soft skills.” This is a crucial point that many...
What exactly does “leadership effectiveness” mean? And how does it apply to procurement and supply chain management functions—is it important, does it really matter vis-à-vis our functional success, or is it just another fancy term? I addressed these and other issues...
Helping people find and nourish their mojo in the workplace is one of the key obligations of leadership. I expounded on this theme in my talk at the Big Ideas Summit, reminding Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) that “everyone can be extraordinary” and Procurement...
A recent post I read on LinkedIn reminded me of a point I raised at a leadership round-table discussion a while ago. I smiled to myself as I remembered the looks on the faces of my co-panellists when I started talking about the ubiquitous phrase, “Our people are our...
