Archive for April, 2009
Call for a New Executive Competence
I talked with my good friend, Drea Zigarmi, today (founding partner of The Ken Blanchard Company, co-author of Achieve Leadership Genius, The Leader Within, and The One Minute Manager) about what I see and believe is most needed by organization managers and senior executives and yet is persistently lacking relative to their core skills. Right here, before I even tell you what the competence is, I’ve made a bold, maybe brazen assertion…that managers and executives lack something crucial to the success of their
organizations and don’t even know it. Though bold, I tread lightly. Consultants, even former executives should take care not to throw stones. Yet, my boldness is not uninformed. It is rooted in what I witness every day working with executive clients one-on-one and in larger training interventions. It…
