Bob Lieberman of Cultivating Creativity describes how he teaches senior leaders to cultivate creativity in their firms - and what all professionals can learn about this crucial skill set.Linked2Leadership | TomOnLeadership | CEO | Cultivating Creativit...Read more ›

Alaina Love describes how you can do what she's done in Making HR More Strategic. As the head of a family business, then a researcher at Merck, she was perfectly positioned to move into Merck's HR department as a change agent who understood and cared a...Read more ›

There's a business revolution coming, believes management guru and author John Bernard. He wants you to be ready for it. It's called "Managing in the NOW." Executing in the NOW means that "every employee can act on every opportunity every time" – to ...Read more ›

For some professionals the way to get business is to be well known and trusted. How do you build that reputation? We ask Pam Coates, who helps professionals do exactly that.TomOnLeadership | L2L | CEO | PamCoates | reputation Read more ›

CEOs have to deal with difficult people all the time -- and sometimes they themselves are the difficult ones. What are some proven ways to deal with difficult people? I interview Pamela Cournoyer, founder, CEO of Communicate with CLASS. Pamela addresse...Read more ›

Most of us set plenty of goals, but very few of them get achieved. For example, 85% of New Year’s Resolutions fail within 3 months. To truly achieve our goals we need to radically change how we set them, says Mark Murphy in Hard Goals : The Secret to...Read more ›

The CEO must know enough about Organizational Development to either do it, or delegate it intelligently and oversee it. A great resource for that is Steven Balzac's new book, "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Organizational Development."TomOnLeadershi...Read more ›

Written from the perspective of a dog, this book explores ways to unleash potential and create success in ways humans can take into action. Co-author Patrick Galvin is the chief galvanizer of Galvin Communications, a word of mouth marketing firm in Por...Read more ›

I interview Mark Paul, an expert at attracting more customers. He's the author of "How to Attract More Customers in Good Times and Bad." His firm is Synergy Consulting.TomOnLeadership | L2L | CEO | customer attraction | Mark Paul Read more ›

Advice for CIOs: "How to Jump Up the Value Chain and Earn the Trust of the rest of the Executive Team." I interview former CIO and consultant Bill Speir to answer these questions: 1. Why would a CEO trust the CIO enough to involve them in planning corp...Read more ›