Category Archives: leadership intelligences

How Leadership Begins in the Family

Leadership development, despite its corporate underpinnings, begins in the family. Here are two examples.
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Visual and Verbal Branding of Leadership: Gandhi & Martin Luther King

Leaders--whether unconsciously or self-consciously--become associated with brands. In fact, it is more right to say, they become brands themselves.
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To Lead, Be, Just Be

Every leader should aim--like Jonathan Livingston Seagull--to be, just be, whatever she or he wants to be.
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Pay What-You-Value-And-Can (WYVACan) and Seth Godin & Lemonade Stands

Vivekin Group's Pay WYVACan (Pay What You Value And Can) pricing policy is a radical innovation in pricing leadership development services.
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An Example of Communicative Leadership Intelligence

Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder & CEO of Samasource provides an excellent illustration of communicative leadership intelligence in action. Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) Posts Sphere: Related Content
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Leadership requires a child-like questioning ability

Leaders need to be able to ask fundamental questions just as children do. Analytical leadership intelligence is an index of this ability. However, we train ourselves to make assumptions, to develop stereotypes--in short to cultivate a fog- that clouds our ability to ask the basic questions that should begin our analytical process.
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President Obama: Speech on intelligence failures

President Obama gave a speech on Jan 5, 2010 on the intelligence failures of the US Government. Did he succeed in being seen as a leader by using his communicative leadership intelligence ?
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Announcing a pay what-you-value-and-can pricing strategy for leadership development

Our Work Leadership development is often a phrase in corporate jargon typically signifying something that management wants you to do. At Vivekin Group, we have been changing this scene through the leadership intelligences framework that I developed while I was at various business schools (Wharton, Purdue, and University of Minnesota). We have honed the research over [...]
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What Matters Now: Leadership Intelligences

Seth Godin brought out a free e-book titled, What Matters Now (download it here). It’s a fascinating collection from many thought leaders. Each writer elaborates in one page on a theme s/he has chosen. It is a must read. I am sure that Seth–in his usual generous style–intended this book to be a thought-provoker. [...]
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Understand your customer

On a Saturday some weeks ago, I was driving from Chapel Hill to Durham along a commuter-friendly back road. The car in front of me suddenly turned its hazard lights on and stopped. Luckily I was some distance and I too turned my hazard lights on and stopped. Cars that were behind me were [...]
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