By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many changes in progress that will impact your leadership and your business this year. Get settled in and take a look at (more than) 100 trends that should be on your radar in 2016:
Category: Trends
Is Spam An Ethical Red Flag?
By Linda Fisher Thornton Consumers expect companies to respect boundaries. That allows them to live happy and meaningful lives without intrusion from companies that want them to "buy right now."
Prevention or Cure? Your Choice
By Linda Fisher Thornton Senior leadership teams and boards have a choice. In their ethics strategy, they can focus on prevention or cure. The cure approach is reactive and messy. It involves waiting for something bad to happen, then scrambling to do damage control. Then you have to build an ethical support system (perhaps at the insistence of a regulatory body) to prevent it from happening again. The prevention approach is proactive and positive, and it helps prevent those messy problems. It involves building the ethical support system up front, while things are going well.
What Does it Mean to Win?
By Linda Fisher Thornton What it means to "win" in business has changed. Driving this change is a greater awareness of the impact we have on each other.
5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future (Part 5)
By Linda Fisher Thornton This is the 5th post in a series called 5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future. Here are the 4 previous posts in the series in case you missed them: Part 1 on Global Trends Part 2 on Wholeness Part 3 on Growth and Human Development Part 4 on Positive Ethical Values and the Search For Meaning This final post will build on the previous 4 posts in this series and discuss how to prepare leaders for the workplace of the future.
5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future (Part 4)
By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is Part 4 in the series "5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future." The previous posts in the series in case you missed them: Part 1 on Global Trends Part 2 on Wholeness Part 3 on Growth and Human Development In Part 4, we take a look at positive ethical values and the search for meaning.
5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future (Part 3)
By Linda Fisher Thornton This is the third installment in a series "5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future" Each post in this series will address a trend in leadership development and offer tangible actions for helping leaders. In case you missed them, here are the previous posts:
5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future (Part 2)
By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is Part 2 in a series called “5 Insights Into Leadership Development Future.” Each post in this series will address trends in leadership development and how to prepare leaders for success in a complex, connected global society (In case you missed it, Part 1 addressed trends in ethical awareness, leading with values and changes in the learning landscape).
5 Insights Into The Future of Leadership Development (Part 1)
By Linda Fisher Thornton In this series called "5 Insights Into the Future of Leadership Development" I will be sharing trends and learning resources that give us the broad picture of how to prepare leaders for success in a complex, connected global society.
The Future of “Leadership” (Do We Need a New Word For It?)
By Linda Fisher Thornton While we are experiencing many global challenges, there is also a gradual global push toward better leadership.
10 Ways the Leadership Relationship is Changing (Part 2)
By Linda Fisher Thornton Previously, I blogged about the first 5 of 10 Ways the Leadership Relationship is Changing, and today I want to explore 5 more.
10 Ways The Leadership Relationship is Changing (Part 1)
By Linda Fisher Thornton A convergence of positive trends is changing leadership expectations, and today I want to explore how those trends are changing the leadership relationship.
350th Post: A Zoom Lens Won’t Help You See “Good Leadership”
By Linda Fisher Thornton Leadership is multifaceted, but leadership books are not often written about that. Many use a "zoom lens" approach to take you very close to one aspect of leadership. This close-up view can be helpful for fine-tuning our leadership skills, but then we may begin to think that this close-up view is all there is to good leadership.
The Future of Learning Isn’t About “Knowing”
By Linda Fisher Thornton If we want to prepare leaders to handle complex challenges, we need to move beyond shallow approaches that focus on knowledge building. We need to help leaders learn to think deeply (beyond symptoms to complex, systemic causes) and broadly across disciplines as they work to meet the needs of multiple stakeholders. To accomplish this, the way we approach learning must change.
5 More Reasons to Pay Attention To Trust
By Linda Fisher Thornton Trust is a hot topic and a valuable business enabler. The organizations that will adapt and succeed in the future make it a business priority. Here are five perspectives on the critical role trust building plays in the success of our organizations:
Leading in Context 