
Center for Creative Leadership Great news CCL Fans! CCL ranks No. 3 worldwide among Custom providers of executive education in the 2009 BusinessWeek executive education survey, and No. 5 in Open Enrollment. Look at the grades and you'll see we got an A+ in Leadership. Good show...since that's our exclusive focus!
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Methodology Note: Rankings were determined by the results of an online survey BusinessWeek sent to 809 companies; 188 responded (23%). Companies indicated familiarity with both university and private-sector ...

How do we develop leadership for public service? A number of us at CCL have the pleasure of collaborating with colleagues at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University...

Warning: shameless, self-serving propaganda alert! Let me be absolutely clear: what follows is completely self-serving and if this kind of thing bothers you, you should stop reading now. Glad we cleared that up...

Center for Creative Leadership Read how CCL's Visual Explorer tool is being used in the admissions process at New York University. Then check out the tool for yourself at www.ccl.org/ve and cclve.blogspot.com.

Center for Creative Leadership Chris Ernst is senior enterprise associate with the Center for Creative Leadership and co-author of the forthcoming book Boundary Spanning Leadership.
Source: www.forbes.com
How to lead by collaborating far beyond your area of direct authority.

When we lack the capacity to effectively communicate with one another, metaphor can provide the means. It has been said that leadership takes heart and requires a certain amount of verbal acumen...

We're fascinated by the reasons that things go wrong. And they go wrong quite often. Sometimes in spectacularly unpleasant ways;; sometimes in a slow slide into irrelevance...

Center for Creative Leadership
Leadership in Action - CCL's periodical for practicing leaders and those who train practicing leaders - shares research like that by Dr. Laura Erskine on leading employees via online, virtual interactions: “Although physical separation and communication channels may be what the news media and organizations are focused ...on, the real driver is the degree of psychological distance between leaders and followers. Followers who felt that their leader trusted them, would back them in difficult situations, and give them autonomy were both more successful and more satisfied.” Read the full article via the link.Read More
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Center for Creative Leadership Did you know CCL does training in Second Life?
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By Mark JankowskiWith training and travel budgets pinched, if not removed altogether, training managers must get creative. What if I asked you if you'd be open to using avatars on virtual private islands ...

Center for Creative Leadership CCL is offering our acclaimed Looking Glass Experience in Seattle, Washington in January. Now is a great time to register if this location is convenient for you. www.ccl.org/lge
Time:8:00AM Monday, January 11th
Location:Seattle, WA, USA

The word "entitlement" basically means getting something because it's your right to have it - it's not a matter of earning it. On the other hand "empowerment" is about building confidence and capacity in order to gain access – to rights, to resources, to information, to services, etc. –...

I recently worked with a very high-performing team of government leaders. We were working together trying to hone their leadership edge and create an even better synergy within the team...

Simona Cherlin Friendships developed through CCl are priceless. The consultants I know are all fabulously smart and fun to be with.

So, are leaders born or are leaders made? As a point for debate, the "born" versus "made" question doesn’t generate the same heat that it once did. ...













