Complete Leader Articles
Are You Getting Leadership Development Wrong?
When it comes to leadership development, organizations are operating in a completely different arena than they were even five years ago. Developing leaders into today's business climate has a unique set of challenges. The leadership drought and the leadership gap have created a substantial deficiency for both the quantity and quality of leadership... read more
Are You Getting Leadership Development Wrong?
When it comes to leadership development, organizations are operating in a completely different arena than they were even five years ago. Developing leaders into today’s business climate has a unique set of challenges. The leadership drought and the leadership gap have created a substantial deficiency for both the quantity and quality of leadership... read more
4 Ways You’re Getting it Wrong When It Comes to Leadership Development
By Ron Price, Strategy Magazine, May 2015
When it comes to leadership development, organizations are operating in a completely different arena than they were even five years ago. Developing leaders into today’s business climate has a unique set of challenges. The leadership drought—with Boomers turning 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day and a sheer... read more
Time is Money: The Value of Taking Time for Yourself
Time is currency, especially for leaders. This constant transaction creates heightened pressure to perform. Leaders find themselves with more responsibility and less time, and once you've maxed out productivity, systems can start to break down. Something has got to give, and usually the first things to go are those activities that relate to... read more
Isn't It Time to Rethink Time?
By Jay Steven Levin, The Complete Leader faculty
"The trouble is...
you think you have time!"
- Unknown
When time becomes the transactional measure of merit you'd think the more we have of it the more valuable we become - to others and ourselves. Not!
Every day we hear self-important boasts declaring how busy we are, how little... read more
Using Talent Science for Competitive Advantage
By Ron Price, Training Magazine, May 2015
alent science has been around for nearly 10 decades: Starting in the 1920s, psychologists studied talent and began developing models of behavior and motivation. These assessments include tests you’ve probably heard of—Myers Briggs Type Indicator and DISC (behavioral styles based on dominance, influence... read more
Defining Moments in Leadership—Dan Price’s Minimum Wage Announcement
By now you have probably seen some of the media coverage that followed my son Dan Price’s decision to realign the compensation practices at his company, Gravity Payments, and the unexpected response it has received around the world. It has been impossible to track all of the media outlets that have broadcast or published his story this past... read more
6 Proven Ways to Reduce Costly Employee Turnover
By Mindy Bortness, Women on Business, April 2015
Brands targeting the teen market have a business model to produce and price goods inexpensively, anticipating the mentality of “disposability” that exists within their target audience. Sadly, many businesses work from that same mentality in their approach in hiring employees. And, unlike a pair... read more
3 Ways to Develop a Story That Will Resonate with Customers
By Dr. Ranjit Nair Ph.D., Strategy for Life Magazine, April 2015
Twenty years ago, I used to listen to a San Francisco-based radio show every Friday at 4:59 p.m., right at the onset of happy hour and the beginning of the weekend. The show was a minute-long run down of the day’s headline news and ended with the announcer, Scoop Nisker,... read more
3 Lessons Your Team Can Learn From the Sport of Rowing
By Whit Mitchell, All Business Experts, April 2015
Have you ever been on a high-performing team? I mean truly high performing, where the synchronicity of all members is so fine-tuned that it feels effortless the harder you push?
For those of you who have had the pleasure of watching a 2000-meter crew race, you have seen “symphony in motion... read more