Articles in the Leadership Development category

The leadership skills of public leaders of all kinds — especially city or county elected officials and managers — are being challenged this week in the aftermath of the violence […]

Recently I received the results of my comprehensive strategic leadership survey and 360 assessment. The results allowed me not only to see my shortcomings as a leader, but also areas […]

The hit movie Hidden Figures tells the story of four brilliant people — Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden — who, in the 1950s, advanced the state […]

The recent surprise in the US presidential election results suggests that those who do not pay close attention to current trends and possible future events may be unprepared for sudden […]

Here we are, one week past a particularly difficult election season, with some races still unresolved. Most of the readers of this blog are people who hold governmental positions that […]

Obedience is part of military culture, both as a legal obligation and as an instilled reflexive practice deemed essential to survival in combat. Circumstances might require following orders that go […]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir -La Grenoullere (1869)   Try an experiment. Grab three or four people and ask them to look at this painting for 30 seconds then close their eyes and […]

By Leisha DeHart-Davis, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Tope Olofintuyi, Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This blog was originally posted on the […]

  How do you know if you’re biased? Are you a human being? Then the answer is an emphatic “Yes!” The truth is, we all are biased. Our brains are […]

An assistant city manager recently told me about her frustration with a team she had formed to work on a special project for the city. Their task was to develop […]