Author Archives: Russ Volckmann

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / March 2001

Summary

Each issue includes a summary of a publication related to leadership.

Bronwyn Fryer, “Leading Through Rough Times: An Interview with Novell’s Eric Schmidt,” Harvard Business Review, May 2001.

Novell is like many other high tech companies who have been experiencing the roller coaster ride of business in this new millennium. In this interview Eric Schmidt talks about refocusing the company, keeping key talent and how he dealt with the culture of fear that he found …

Feature Article: Leadership Resources

Feature Articles / February 2001

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As an individual act, leadership is most often seen as heroic in some sense. I describe the models of leadership that prevail in business as heroic, because they treat the leader as the center of their way of thinking with the expectation that the leaders behavior determines the success of any enterprise.

And leadership is heroic. There are situations, moments, events in which heroic leadership crystallizes action on the part of others so that something of …

Leadership Coaching Tip

Leadership Coaching Tips / February 2001

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A good place to begin when looking at leadership issues in a business organization is the context. Begin that by identifying the forces of change.

Is there growing complexity? What kind – technological, market, workforce, competition, other?
Is the pace of change shifting: slowing down, speeding up?
How is the leader seeing and experiencing change in their business?
Is this ongoing, accelerating, slowing down, temporary?

Appreciating the context of leadership is essential in taking further developmental …

Leading Comments

Leading Comments / December 2001

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Mission

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The mission of this e-journal has been to be a practical guide to the application …