“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”
- Abraham Lincoln
Credited with freeing the slaves, Abraham Lincoln remains a timeless figure in American history and will forever be known as one of the greatest presidents to ever hold office. These lessons, gleaned by …

As Michael Watkins depicted in his book, The First 90 Days, leadership transitions can often be a sink-or-swim event for leaders and managers. Indeed, this is not without a good reason. Many times, by after being promoted based on their good performance, leaders and managers falsely assuming that the strategy that has got them there will take them on in their leadership journey.
This group of leaders falls into the trap of wrongly generalizing the nature of their work, and the skills demanded of them in each position. By being promoted …

Through my leadership journey, I’ve had the misfortune of sitting through numerous failed meetings. Some were downright unproductive, some were agonizingly long, and most yielded no decent results. Here we shall discuss a particular instance of a failed meeting which many may identify with, and may we all draw precious insights from this valuable leadership lesson.
Margaret, the head of the security department in a departmental store, was the chairperson for the meeting. While the meeting was set to start at three in the afternoon, Margaret was still talking on the …

An infant is learning to crawl. She begins by pushing herself backward around the house. Backing herself around, she gets lodged beneath the furniture. There she thrashes about — crying and banging her little head against the sides and undersides of the pieces. She is stuck and hates it. So she does the only things she can think of to get herself out — she pushes even harder, which only worsens her problem. She’s more stuck than ever.
If this infant could talk, she would blame the furniture for her troubles. …

I’m sure we all have had experiences of never ending meetings, those that start early in the day and end when the sky is dark. What’s more, many of these meetings often yield no results, and we come out of such meetings, wondering what we had talked about that took the entire day! Evidently, without proper time management, meetings can loose its purpose and effectiveness.
Let us first explore three reasons why time management in meetings is so important.
1. It allows us to avoid spending unnecessary time. In the corporate world, …