Continuing on the ways Folkman and Zenger saw leaders become more effective: They became “change agents” and they solicited teammates’ ideas to facilitate this change. This strategy fits right in to our company strategy of becoming leaner. Leaders who strive to maintain the status quo can lose respect. They tend to be stuck in their […]

How does one become a better leader? Sharing the work of Zenger and Folkman, we have hit on several behaviors: Focus on communicating more Share more information and knowledge Encourage more Here’s a fourth: be a better role model. Many leaders receive poor marks from their team because they don’t walk the talk. They have […]

Yesterday we discussed what two researchers, Joseph Folkman and Jack Zenger, found that helped weak leaders become stronger. In addition to communicating more and sharing more knowledge and information, people deemed to become more effective leaders over time did so by encouraging others. A good way to think about encouragement is to stop now, rewind […]

Some people will tell me that they would lead more if they were effective at leading. Some have tried to lead at times and it didn’t go well. Rather than try again, they give up on it. Researchers Joseph Folkman and Jack Zenger have studied leaders who were once deemed to be ineffective and changed. […]