#1 LEADERSHIP LAW
THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF ANY NATION, TEAM, OR ORGANIZATION IS ULTIMATELY DEPENDENT ON THE QUALITY OF THEIR LEADER.
—Ron Rael, Leadership Provocateur
Latest for The Leader Blog
Can We Learn to Be Leaders?
Can Children Learn to Be Leaders? A charter school in Utah focuses their curriculum on entrepreneurial skills, math, and capitalism. Listening to this story reminded me of a question I often ask: Are leaders made, or are they natural born leaders? If you could place...
Leader’s Original Goal
In all situations where someone is in a leadership position, the primary goal was to get something accomplished while taking charge of a group of people. He or she did not ‘intend’ to be a leader. There is always a purpose behind the reason you either will become or...
J.C. Penney and Strategy
When I am preparing CFOs who want to move into the CEO position, one of the essential topics I educate them on is strategy – choosing the strategy, executing the strategy, and measuring the strategy. This recent NPR story about retailer J.C. Penney got me thinking...
About Ron Rael of The High Road Institute®
Ron is the CEO of the High Road® Institute, an organization where people see the benefit of optimizing human potential in the workplace, its leadership, and its culture. “We encourage leaders to take the path less traveled, which requires tremendous professionalism, courage, and dedication.” Through HRI services and products, clients experience:
- Higher levels of accountability
- Actualized commitments to ethical practices
- Enhanced governance and transparency
- Employees throughout the organization who are dedicated to service



