Taking the initiative is a determining trait between good, better and great contractors and leaders. Taking the initiative requires understanding what’s at stake, understanding the stakeholders ...

Productivity at work comes down to taking initiative, according to leadership experts Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman. Zenger and Folkman say the most productive employees get started on a project — and ...

Recently I was talking to a group of senior executives about leadership. I asked them the question “what do you most want from your employees at work?” So many of them mentioned initiative. I probed ...

Initiative. It’s an important concept. Think of any role model or successful person. Every one of them created their success by taking initiative. By contrast, there is no surer way to stay where you ...

Remember when you were in high school and were assigned those obnoxious group projects? Well, I was the girl who you crossed your fingers and hoped would be assigned to your team. I’d come swooping in ...

When I interviewed recent college graduates about their jobs, many told me about the trouble they had following their managers’ expectation that they take initiative. But they didn’t all have the same ...

Despite a 10% YTD decline—caused by high-interest rates, elevated home prices, and tariffs—these are short-term challenges, and Lowe's fundamentals remain solid. Lowe's is taking initiative to grow by ...

Forbes also explored a whole new approach to problem-solving in the workplace, highlighting the importance of critical ...

In the world of contemporary training, saturated with interfaces, platforms and algorithms, the question of taking the initiative occupies a paradoxical position. On the one hand, institutional ...

A series of bills pending in California’s state legislature would severely curtail the use of voters’ initiatives and referenda—and have already sparked a long-overdue debate about the virtues of ...