• Leadership in the eye of Management

    What is the difference between management and leadership? It is a question that has been asked more than once and also answered in different ways. The biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way they motivate the people who work or follow them, and this sets the tone for most other aspects of what [...]

  • Women Leadership

    Women don’t have a problem developing an effective leadership style. What they do struggle with more than men, however, is claiming the authority to lead, according to Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn. The gender gap in leadership is the focus of “Claiming Authority: Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders,” a chapter in the forthcoming [...]

  • Learn to Lead

    A friend of mine, let’s call her Vicky, owns a well-established hair salon with over 15 operators. For the past year she has been agonizing over her business’s slow growth. Last month, two of her employees approached her and asked for a meeting. In the meeting they asked Vicky to teach them how to manage [...]