In this best of Big Red Tomato Company Series, today’s post focuses on how to lead better in 2010. Here is a collection of some of our most popular posts on leadership from 2009.

Think and grow rich is the most important financial book ever written. Napoleon Hill researched more than forty millionaires including:
Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, George Eastman, Henry Ford, John D. Rockerfeller, Charles M Schwab, FW …

Achieving Extraordinary Results Through TOTAL Alignment and Engagement
Too often the output of a two day strategic planning session can be described as “when you go off-site as a team, agree on a bunch of priorities …

The Big Red Tomato Company was recently given the opportunity to interview the hot new authors of the new book the Power of Strategic Commitment – Achieving Extraordinary Results through TOTAL alignment and Engagement. By …

“The average knowledge worker will outlive the average employing organization. This is the first time in history that’s happened. … So the center of gravity of higher education is shifting from the education of the …

Learn how to speak like a pro – using President Kennedy’s ‘Man on the Moon’ speech as an example, see how you can learn from the masters.

The Big Red Tomato Company Blog has now been featured in Alltop in both the Leadership and Small Business listings.
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Being a leader is hard. Managing expectations, managing deliverables and ensuring everyone is pulling in the same direction. Sometimes it feels like herding cats!

Southwest Airlines are famed for legendary customer service. More importantly allowing it’s team members to have fun whilst at work and expressing their individuality.
Would your team members be allowed to do this?

1. Assess Employees Better
In good times it’s easier for employees to look like stars, so appraisals tend to become less rigourous. In tough times it’s much easier to distinguish the true stars from the also …

As organisations become flatter, people may be leading teams where they have no formal authority.
In a recent article on Harvard Management Essentials, Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay summarises the five steps to leading when you’re not the boss:
1. …