Human resources, despite the function’s complex activities, should have a fundamentally simple mission, yet it is a mission that is being neglected by many HR professionals.

Here’s a process that’s been working for leaders of all ranks and functions for more than two decades to help you achieve great results by developing great human relationships.

So called “great” leaders are often the worst leaders when they fail to leave a strong culture of leadership excellence behind after they depart the organization.

Summary: Most organizations are hampered by the poor performance of some of its members. The author shows the right perspective a leader should have in dealing with them.

Summary: After a quest of several decades to identify the differences between great leaders and poor leaders, leadership expert Brent Filson has taken a cue from Albert Einstein and the great physicist’s quest to find the unified field theory of the universe. Brent has developed what he calls “The Unified Field Theory of Leadership Success” four propositions that can help you be a much more effective leader.

Summary: The importance of motivation in leadership cannot be denied. But most leaders overlook a critical component of motivation, the human dream. The article describes what dreams really mean in the realm of leadership.

Difficult people can be a thorn in the side of many a leader. The author shows a process to help turn difficult people from liabilities into assets.

In leadership, friendliness is not simply a nice personality trait but an essential requirement of great results.

Many leaders think that their leadership is something they do on-the-job and not in their life off-the-job. However, the author contends that the best leadership should be applicable both to on-and-off-the-job activities.

All leaders experience fear, failure and self-doubt many times throughout their careers. The author combines the three into one creature he names after the movie monster Ghidora — and shows how to defeat it.