Publications & Resources

The story of how one community (Reading, Massachusetts) brought residents together to talk honestly about its future.

Case for why Baby Boomers and Gen Xers must join forces to tackle the twin challenges of leadership succession and managing Gen Y.

They're your high-maintenance, entitled, technologically sophisticated and fickle new talent pool. Generation Y, a.k.a. the Millennials, is also potentially the most high-performing generation in decades. Here's the lowdown on what makes them tick and how to work most effectively with them.

This follow up article to Gen X: Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate explores the collective socio-economic experiences of Generation X and how this creates common values and behaviors that define the Gen X persona. Drawing on the research of Strauss & Howe, Deborah Gilburg illuminates the shared values, strengths and leadership challenges that confront Gen Xers as they prepare to take the reins from the retiring Baby Boom.

How to leverage the mind-share of retiring Baby Boomers to advance your career.

How you can groom your best employees to elevate department productivity and status, and ensure strong leadership succession in your management ranks.

Good communication habits are fundamental to ensuring a productive workplace, satisfied customers and career advancement.

A brief summary of Alan Gilburg’s book Deep Type, for those who are interested in further information on who would benefit and how it might be used. 


Deep Type by Alan Gilburg, Llumina Press:
 
This groundbreaking book presents a new methodology developed to deepen the traditional Jungian typing process. Do we really need another book on Jungian Typology, some might ask? The Deep Type® process, however, is different on several accounts. The book provides self-awareness for leaders and those who coach and consult with leaders so they can better understand their own strengths and limitations—as well as those they supervise and counsel—including blind spots and courage issues. Deep Type is not a book for casual practitioners who want a quick and easy way of understanding a Type. Rather, it is an excellent resource for professionals who want a more powerful and personal way to coach, consult and otherwise develop leaders.

Communication Basics by Alan & Amy Gilburg: 

A majority of the workplace challenges we encounter focus on incomplete or inappropriate communication. This simple and sophisticated tool has helped thousands of people in being more clear, concise and effective in their important communications. Good communication habits are fundamental to ensuring a productive workplace, satisfied customers and career advancement.

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Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?” His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright Brothers—and as a counterpoint Tivo.

Despite prolific business practice of using ‘carrots & sticks’ to motivate employees, science overwhelming proves that for the majority of the work we do, such motivators decrease performance.

Changing the status quo in major organizations may seem overwhelming. Debra Meyerson shares findings from her research about incremental and bottom-up change strategies to advance social justice and social responsibility within organizations.

This online resource reviews and provides gems to popular leadership and personal development books: in three minutes you can get the gems of a book and decide whether to go deeper.

When the economy recovers, things won’t return to normal—and a different mode of leadership will be required.

The science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions, significantly increase their capacity to get things done.

Generations are among he most powerful forces in history. Tracking their march through time lends order—even a measure of predictability—to long-term trends.

Modern office life and an increasingly common condition called “attention deficit trait” are turning steady executives into frenzied underachievers.

New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles — each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into action, but it pays off in performance. And, better yet, it can be learned.

Some executives thrive under pressure. Others will wilt. Is the reason all in their heads? Hardly. Sustained high achievement demands physical and emotional strength as well as a sharp intellect. To bring mind, body, and spirit to peak condition, executives need to learn what world-class athletes already know: recovering energy is as important as expending it.