Forbes Features Friends of the CVDL in New List In late January, Forbes magazine published it’s first list of the best small companies in the country. Explaining what makes these companies so great, Bo Burlingham, the Forbes contributor who organized the list and the original author of Small Giants – the book that inspired the
“Competency to do your job is your ticket to entry,” says podcast host Dr. Linda Sharkey in her opening comments, “but values are really the defining factor. … It is going to be essential going forward.” Sharkey hosted CVDL co-founder and director, Dr. Jim Ludema, on her weekly podcast The Leadership Connection. Ludema tackled the
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Today marks the official end of the holidays. The decorations are put away, the children are back at school, and we are back at our desks. Diets are started, resolutions are made. With these new starts comes a desire to set goals for the coming 12 months. I always find it easy to make a list of ideas, and much more difficult to
We were once a society of workers who punched a clock and worked at well-defined roles from 9 to 5, for managers who gave us clearly defined tasks, at companies that employed for life, where change happened slowly. Well, no more. Median tenure in the US workforce is four years, work has seeped into our
“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.” Plutarch Over 2000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch touched on a central theme in values-driven leadership: selfless mentoring. Today, Plutarch’s ideas are still relevant: selfless mentoring informs, motivates, builds trust and develops tomorrow’s leaders. The popularity of mentoring boomed
Look out! Don’t worry, it’s not a real alligator, just a kind-of-scary picture of one. But…did you jump (it’s okay to admit it if you did)? If so, then you committed a Type 1 cognition error, also known as a false positive. This is what happens when our brains think they detect something that in
In business, it is easy to speak the same language and still need a translator. The problem isn’t that the words aren’t understood; it’s that the underlying meaning is missed. Dr. Richard Boyatzis, a professor at Case Western Reserve University and author of Resonant Leadership, shares a perfect illustration of this. He tells the story
Culture Creators & Culture Sustainers NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Making Values Meaningful, a new e-book published by the Center for Values-Driven Leadership. Download your free copy at www.cvdl.org/menu. The first and most important thing you can do to create a values-driven organization is to make values and culture a central
Editor’s Note: Every quarter we assemble a small group of CEOs and top executives, and ask them the same questions. The answers offer insights into the strategies and processes that successful leaders use to guide their relationships and decision making. Earlier this month, we asked Mona Amodeo, CEO if idgroup, to tell us how she