Great leaders don’t just communicate well—they influence. Influence is what transforms ideas into action, inspires teams to take ownership, and ensures that initiatives gain traction. However, ...

In our last post, we referenced the need for a framework of ethical leadership. Here we will discuss ethical influence. There are many ways of defining leadership. Professor Peter Northouse defines it ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Defining the team’s direction as propounded by the leader is a crucial success factor and helps maximize effectiveness and make a ...

Of all the leadership theories available, transformational leadership is a uniquely effective way for leaders to inspire followers to perform better and work harder. Introduced in 1978 by James Burns, ...

I did not have leadership potential. So I decided to become a thought leader. Let me give you an example: For several years, I was responsible for ensuring that university professors —none of whom ...

Leadership, both an art and a science, is rarely perfect in practice. When leadership goes wrong, we can also learn lessons from negative situations. As Adam Grant said in his “America Is Learning The ...

When my sister Inbal and I, along with our late colleague Julie Greene and with John Kinyon, founded BayNVC in 2002, one of our top priorities was to create ongoing generations of leaders. This was ...