It’s important, but not easy, to understand yourself and how others see you. Here are 4 ways to increase your self-awareness and become a better leader.
Examine an updated framework for executive development emphasizing expansive thinking and adaptive leadership. The second edition of this report explores how senior leaders develop broader perspectives, integrate diverse viewpoints, and navigate complexity in evolving organizational
Learn about executive identity as a means of channeling agency, using examples from the voyage of Dodge Morgan. Research explores leadership identity development through narrative analysis, revealing how executives construct meaning and purpose through personal journeys.
Examine biographical action-research principles helping leaders deepen insights and effect change through personal growth. Research challenges the misconception that leaders can introduce change without developing themselves, emphasizing ongoing potentiality discovery.
Learn about a biographical approach for studying managerial behavior and personality. Paper describes methodology and inspires researchers to incorporate biographical tactics, principles, and insights into their own research and practice.
Investigate how strengths leading to early promotions become weaknesses causing derailment among high-potential managers. Research provides recommendations for preventing largely avoidable organizational and human waste through effective learning practices in management
Examine dynamics of derailment through boss ratings of 300+ middle to upper-level managers across 8 companies. Study explores personal flaws, managerial inadequacies, poor image, and narrow business experience as derailment factors beyond retrospective perceptions.
Investigate 400 executives’ vignettes across 8 organizations revealing 4 themes: political dynamics, people treatment, advancement paths, and executive roles. Research analyzes unwritten organizational values through stories, comparing company cultures shaped by industry,
Examine self-aware, self-directed improvement efforts of executives at the highest levels. Research focuses on conscious, deliberate efforts to address limitations rather than automatic development from new experiences, exploring challenges of executive self-development.