Jo McDermott

Leadership

  • How Do You Know If You’re a Good Leader?

    How Can You Judge Your Leadership Skills Let’s start with how you know whether someone else is a good leader?  You just know, right? Yes, you know when someone is a good leader for YOU.  Each of us is looking… Continue reading

  • What Does It Take To Be An Executive In Your Org?

    What Does It Take To Be An Executive At Your Org? Executives come in all flavors.  Organizations also come in all flavors.  People who want to be Executives come in all flavors.  How do you know what your organization needs… Continue reading

  • My Five Favorite Books on Leadership

    So Hard to Pick Just Five! Boy, this was hard.  I thought about writing several blogs–My First Five Favorite Books on Leadership, My Next Five Favorite Books on Leadership . . .   Then I thought about writing a blog titled… Continue reading

  • The Transition From Manager to Leader

    Leaders v. Managers I’m sure you’ve probably heard about the differences between managers and leaders.  Managers do things right and leaders do the right thing–right? I think that this is an interesting discussion, but it isn’t that easy.  Managers do… Continue reading

  • Stephen Covey and his Gifts to Business People

    All business people owe a lot to Stephen Covey, who died this week at the age of 79.  Covey wrote his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, in 1989.  There were no earth shatteringly new concepts in it—to… Continue reading

  • Onboard Yourself

    Onboarding Onboarding is the process that organizations use to get their employees up to speed enough to do their jobs.  Another term for it is “organizational socialization.”  Organizations have informal and formal methods for the knowledge transfer or processes, tools,… Continue reading

  • Promoted to Manage Your Peers? Awkward.

    They’ll Hate Me! If you spend enough time climbing the corporate ladder, or if you work in a small organization, eventually you’ll be promoted to manage your peers.  This is one of the toughest developmental experiences there is.  It’s hard… Continue reading

  • Become a Great Leader

    Do You Want to Become a Great Leader? How you think about leadership has a profound affect on your success in becoming a good leader.  We all have our individual idea of what a good leader is.  Then we assume… Continue reading

  • What If Your Leader Won’t Act?

    What if my leader won’t . . . I get this question all the time.  My leader won’t make a decision; what do I do?  Why won’t the leadership in my company LEAD?  Things go up the chain, but nothing… Continue reading

  • Manage Your Resistance

    Put Your Leader Hat On Who would you rather work with if you’re implementing a new change in your organization?  Would you rather work with someone who has been there for ten years–who knows his/her way around the organization, who… Continue reading