Ask the Fedcoach
Sharing best practices across an agency
A supervisor at the VA asks, “How do high-performing government agencies or private sector companies spread best practices?”
The Rolodex that redefined power
You’ve probably never heard of Pattie Sellers. But Warren Buffett has. And so have Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah Winfrey and Indra Nooyi.
(Tony Avelar)
Everything that’s wrong with performance reviews
This annual rite of passage may be designed to help meet organizational goals and assist with people’s careers, but it typically has the opposite effect.
Should I buy my boss a gift?
The answers to most holiday questions are pretty clear-cut. But what about gifts at work?
The role of collaboration in leadership
We have a growing problem in leadership today: Many leaders are narcissistic pretenders who selfishly lead their organizations right into the ground.
Gingrich as Roosevelt...or Wilson
How closely does newly crowned Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich’s leadership style match that of the presidents he says he resembles?
John Boehner’s leadership mess
No one comes out of this debacle on the payroll tax cut looking worse than the Speaker of the House.
North Korea’s leadership transition
Without a leadership transition that happens with immediacy and clarity, Kim Jong Eun’s chances of success are slight.
Tim Tebow mania hits the Broncos
Now the Broncos coach just needs to make sure all the attention on the team’s quarterback doesn’t start to rub his other players the wrong way.
Tom Fox
Holiday book list for federal leaders
Looking for a last-minute gift for the federal leader in your life? Here are my five favorite leadership books of 2011.
Ask the Fedcoach
Stop stressing out
Here are a few ideas I’ve picked up from colleagues and executive coaches over the years that may help during these crazy times.
Kudos from Christie
WATCH | Gov. Christie says his son's leadership class uses The Washington Post's "On Leadership" section every day.
Top American Leaders
PHOTOS | Meet the seven 2011 winners to receive leadership awards from Harvard University and The Washington Post.
Winners share their advice
READ | The seven 2011 winners shared their best leadership stories and words of wisdom at this year’s awards forum.
Video: Kudos from Christie
WATCH | Gov. Christie says his son's leadership class uses The Washington Post's "On Leadership" section every day.
Christie says leadership is navigating a boulevard between getting what you want and compromising your principles.
Michael Kaiser, President of the John F. Kennedy Center, gives advice for leading smaller arts organizations.
Mary Jordan and Sheila Bair, former chairman of the FDIC, discuss body image.
Freeman Hrabowski, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County, emphasizes hard work and discipline.
Gov. Chris Christie said, "I don't think he has the first idea of how to use executive power."
The executive chairman and former CEO of Google defines what leadership has come to mean for him.
What is leadership? Eight of the 2011 Service to America award winners, recognized by the Partnership for Public Service for their outstanding contributions as federal workers, answer the question.
The former U.S. Representative on the leadership lessons she learned as a woman in Congress.
The former secretary of Homeland Security on motivating his staff around a difficult mission of cracking down on illegal immigration.
The first female director of the USGS on why she hates that label and the unique challenge of leading an organization of scientists.
Alice Rivlin on founding the Congressional Budget Office, its role in the debt debate, and what it feels like to take flack from both parties.
11 notable military leaders of 2011
PHOTO GALLERY | 2011 has been a year of great accomplishments and dynamic leadership changeover for the military.
More from On Leadership
Steven Pearlstein
Stop the pharmacy consolidation train
We’ve tried consolidation in the health-care industry and the results have been decidedly mixed. Maybe it’s time to give competition a try.
Steven Pearlstein
Steven Pearlstein: A testament to leadership
At a time when inspiring leadership seems to be in such short supply, it’s worth celebrating those who are doing it and reflect on the reasons for their success.
Steven Pearlstein
On billionaires, secretaries and taxes
The better way to reform the tax code, and make it a bit more progressive, is to go back to an old idea — a progressive consumption tax.
Recent leadership roundtables
Post Leadership by Jena McGregor
Would a workplace without email spell bliss or disaster?
The recent ban on internal work emails by French company Atos raises the question of whether more workplaces should follow suit.
Post Leadership by Jena McGregor
Could gender affect career interests?
A new study finds that certain interests become more pronounced when girls are exposed to male hormones in the womb.
Post Leadership by Jena McGregor
Are Mormons better leaders?
From Mitt Romney to Jon Huntsman, does the Mormon faith produce an outsized number of leaders?
Leadership Books
The Steve Jobs Way
This business biography, written before Jobs died, details his corporate achievements and visionary leadership.
The Little Black Book of Leadership
This handy little volume provides enough information to have a fling with leadership, but not enough to be ready to marry it.
The Corporate Lattice
Globalization and technology are creating firms with fewer rungs and more options for how, when and where to work.
Becoming the Evidence-Based Manager
Leadership by instinct might work in some cases with naturally charming, supportive managers. But not for everyone else.
About On Leadership
Our aim is to tap into leadership knowledge and experience and apply it, in real time, to an online conversation about real-world developments.”
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