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On a bike ride a few months ago, I learned an incredibly powerful lesson: 80% of leadership development is just being there.

I went on an early Sunday morning ride with two friends who work for the same corporation. One was an executive and the other had been with the company for about a year.  During the one-hour ride, we talked about all sorts of topics.  Only about 10% of the conversation pertained to my friends’ mutual work interests.  But afterward, the younger friend, Dan, made a telling comment when he said “I got more accomplished with Jason in that short bike ride than I did with weeks of attempted emails and phone calls.”

Dan was right.  This bike ride did more for his career than months …  [ Read More ]

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When Meg Whitman took over at Hewlett Packard, she inherited what could best be described as a corporate cluster f…uuuddggge.    In the Wall Street Journal this weekend, Ben Worthen tracks how Whitman is attempting to get the computer giant back on track.  Here’s how she’s doing it:

1. Adding Clarity not Complexity.

In an interview last week, she told Worthen that “I want to be able to answer the question what is H-P very crisply.”  Her first order of business, was undoing her predecessor, Leo Apotheker’s decision to transform the hardware company into a software company.  In a move very similar to Howard Schultz’s decision to reassert Starbucks …  [ Read More ]

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