Leader's Edge Column
by Don MacRae
There are 4 kinds of corporate leaders in the world today:
- Those who make things happen;
- Those to whom things happen;
- Those who watch things happen;
- Those who don't know what's happening.
Leader's Edge is a BusinessWeek online column Don writes about corporate leadership: those who make things happen, and the challenges they face. It explores who those leaders are, what they do and how they develop; how they think and feel; their successes and failures; their professionalism and their humanism.
Below are some of Don's columns. Click on the column you wish to read. Once you have finished reading a column you can return to The Lachlan Group web site, or contact Don at his e-mail address: don@lachlangroup.com.
Six Secrets of Successful E-Leaders
Here are a half-dozen strategies tech-savvy entrepreneurs and execs use to ensure that their businesses are always innovative
How to Cure a Behemoth's Blues
This CEO laid out the steps of a customer-oriented recovery plan and led a stumbling giant to vitality. Can you guess his name?
Miss the Big Picture, Fade Like Polaroid
Immense success blinded management to the changes that were making its cameras obsolete. Its fate is a sobering lesson for every CEO
The Foundation Stones of Leadership
A good CEO clearly spells out his goals and objectives -- and then gets his team to come up with ways of achieving them
Wanted: A Moral Compass and a Big Stick
Corporate America will regain public trust only when the golden incentives to err are eliminated -- and corrupt execs are doing hard time.
Welcome To The Customer Economy
Companies that are easy to do business with are the big winners these days. Here's how to make sure your company "gets it".
A Better Person Makes A Better Exec
Invited to do some executive coaching, I gave myself a crash course in this expanding field. My decision: Just call me Coach MacRae.
Tips for Team-Building
Smart CEOs put together a group of leaders who can share goals and responsibilities. The key is to ensure that teamwork thrives.
A New Level of Leadership
In times of crisis, CEOs should be visible and in touch with employees. They also need to have effective contingency plans in place.
The Rules of Achievement
Start with ambition, hard work and imagination. And be prepared to recognize your opportunity when it appears.
It's Survival of the Politically Fittest
No matter how good you are at your job, without the ability to negotiate office power structures, you're toast.
Ten Tips for Leaders
Whether you're running a department or a multinational corporation, the same rules should determine how you treat employees and customers.
Don't Diss the Boss in Public
One employee learned the hard way how that can backfire -- no matter how right he might have been.
Spring Training for Managers
Here's a program to get them as involved, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable about their own companies as they are about their favorite sports team.
Can You Still Claw Your Way to the Top?
How applicable are author Dave Barry's 15-year-old views on corporate life? You be the judge.
You Thought They Had It Tough on Survivor?
The corporate landscape today resembles nothing so much as a cutthroat sport, and each player is expected to contribute to the team -- or else.
The Personal Toll Corporate Leadership Can Take
Positive thinking is the best way to cope with work pressures and stay mentally and physically fit. Here, one "recovered" executive's program.
Seeing Beyond Monday Morning
Where managing with long-term vision is concerned, even a top corporate chief like Jack Welch needs a helping hand. |
