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WJM's Leadership Model
WJM’s Executive Leadership Behavior Model draws on over 15 years of experience assessing executives from many top corporations and partnering with our Faculty of over 700 of the best leadership…
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How High-Performance Organizations Accelerate Executive Leadership Development
Ineffective leadership coaching is costly and impedes development, according to the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp), a research organization that focuses on practices that…
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More Than Just Words: The 5 Channels of Communication
The human face tells a fascinating story about the nature of physiology and psychology. As a mode of communication, the amount of information that the human face relays through facial…
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Satisfying the Four Basic Human Drives
Background Case It is well known, throughout the site, that the drug discovery team is broken. They have been through their third team leader in three years. Their meetings are…
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Secrets of Assessment Center Design
An Assessment Center is an excellent tool for identifying leadership potential, executive development or succession planning. Assessment Centers can be made up of job simulations alone or combined with other…
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Leading Successful Change
WJM talks to WJM Faculty Member Cassie Solomon about her new book written with Gregory Shea, Leading Successful Change: 8 Keys to Making Change Work (Wharton Digital Press, February 5,…
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Up to one half of Americans are introverts. If that seems high, it’s probably because so many pretend to be extroverts. In this influential book, Susan Cain charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the 20th century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture (and how differently introverts are viewed in other, particularly Asian, cultures).…
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The Technical Executive as Leader
What does it take for someone from a technical background, a scientist, an engineer, or a computer specialist – to become an effective leader of people? Many executives I work…
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Increasing Gender-Balance on Corporate Boards
On 12/12/12, 2020 Women on Boards chapters, affiliates, friends and supporters will hold lunch events in cities across the U.S. to share ideas, strengthen and grow our networks, and change…
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Advising on Executive Retirement
More and more people these days are facing the exciting, challenging, and, yes, frightening life event we call “retirement”. While WJM Associates has been coaching and advising senior executives for…
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Find Your Resilience
BC Forbes, one of the greatest business leaders of the past century, was famous for stating, “victory is often nearest when defeat seems inescapable.” Resilience is the quality we need…
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Characteristics of a Poor Leader
During a series of 3-day leadership development workshops for middle managers, I asked the participants to reflect upon the “best” boss they ever had and to write down the key…
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Trapped in the Family Business®
If you do not have direct experience in a family business, you probably don’t know what it feels like, or maybe how it is even possible, to be trapped in…