It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
As we seek to expand our understanding of leaders and leadership, research provides the necessary insight into what works and what needs to change, to improve our leadership effectiveness. This section contains a collection of leadership related research that helps to keep us up-to-date with changes in leadership thinking and practice.
Development Dimensions International (DDI) a respected, global talent management company recently published their Global Leadership Forecast 2011. This report is one of the largest leadership studies of it’s kind, with more than 2,600 participating organizations. The research provides some interesting perspectives on the current state of leadership and future leadership needs. Specifically, the report looked [...]
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The Booz & Company is the one of the oldest management consulting firms which completed a survey of more than 1,800 executives. According to the survey: A great majority of executives (64% of the survey respondents) say that their biggest frustration factor is “having too many conflicting priorities.” Executives report that their biggest challenges are [...]
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A recent post on Harvard Business Review, “Why American Management Rules the World” discusses research from a group of European researchers which found that on average American firms are the best managed in the world. “Over the past decade, a team from Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford has [...]
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The “2010 Global IBM CEO Study” was recently published, it’s one of the largest one-on-one CEO interview studies, surveying 1,541 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders from 60 countries and across 33 industries. The four primary findings of this year’s survey are as follows: Today’s complexity is only expected to rise and more [...]
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Research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) which surveyed 2,200 leaders from 15 organizations, in three countries between 2006 and 2008 produced some interesting findings. The research project was designed to answer the following questions: What leadership skills and perspectives are critical for success now and in the future? How strong are current leaders [...]
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