Author: Eric Douglas Blog

Eric Douglas is the senior partner and founder of Leading Resources Inc., a consulting firm that focuses on developing high-performing organizations. For more than 20 years, Eric has successfully helped a wide array of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporations achieve breakthroughs in performance. His new book The Leadership Equation helps leaders achieve strategic clarity, manage change effectively, and build a leadership culture.

A Method for Dealing with Problem Employees

How do you deal with employees who are technically proficient but whose behaviors undermine the team and cause conflict throughout the office?

10 Interview Questions Regarding Leadership

One of our clients, a large non-profit, is going through a search for a new president. I was asked to develop a series of questions to address the topic of leadership. I was not asked to address finance, fundraising, planning…

Strategic Policy Governance – a System That Works for Publicly-Elected Boards

In my travels around the U.S., I work with many different organizations, including public power companies. I work with their publicly-elected Boards to help them figure out how to effectively govern their organizations.

A Reflection on LRI’s 20th Anniversary

This week marked 20 years since I founded our consulting firm. In celebration of our success, I thought I would share some lessons I’ve learned. (I was about to say 10 lessons, but in recognition of the fact that we may all be tiring

An Experiment in One-Hour Coaching

I’ve recently been conducting one-hour coaching sessions for several middle managers. These are one-time meetings, 60 minutes long. The client wants to see if middle managers can benefit from just a taste of the coaching…

Rethinking Consensus

For a long time, I have argued that leaders need to be careful of relying too much on consensus decision-making.

New Research Underscores the Importance of Trust

My book The Leadership Equation explained why trust is so important to building high-performing organizations. It explained how our brain chemistry is hard-wired to look for signals that we trust one another.

The Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

We are excited to share this informative webinar with you, presented by our senior consultants at Leading Resources Inc. For the last 20 years, we have focused on developing leaders and leading organizations. Our firm’s clients include large and small public agencies and departments, including the California State Auditor, CalPERS, and California’s Medi-Cal program. Some of the …

How Our Views of History Influence Our Ability to Shape the Future

A colleague of mine passed along an article recently titled, “History and Organizational Change.” Written by two scholars in Canada, Roy Suddab and William M. Foster, their argument is…

Using Values to Decentralize Decision-Making

One of the greatest benefits of developing a framework of core values is that decision making can be decentralized.

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