Leadership styles
How leaders choose an approach that fits the person, task, and conditions.
Ideas leaders can use.
For more than 40 years, I have written and taught about leadership, management, and organizational effectiveness.
The collection
Writing grounded in the work.
My articles offer practical ideas that leaders can use to improve their effectiveness, develop their people, navigate change, and achieve better results.
My SmartBrief articles cover topics ranging from leadership styles and communication to implementing change, developing people, and building effective organizations.
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A practical view of leadership.
The writing returns to a central question: what can a leader do now to make the situation clearer and help people succeed?
Communication
How clear expectations, useful questions, and direct feedback improve performance.
Implementing change
How leaders build understanding, capability, commitment, and follow-through.
Developing people
How leaders help others become more capable, confident, and independent.
Organizational alignment
How strategy, values, systems, structure, and people work together.
Performance management
How managers set expectations, observe results, and respond constructively.
Published work
More than 100 articles.
Paul’s ideas have appeared in SmartBrief on Leadership, The New York Daily News, The Leader-to-Leader Journal, Management Review, Leadership Excellence, Toastmasters, USA Today, and The CEO Refresher.