5 Leadership Lessons: Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs
August 27, 2008
Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church, wrote Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs with church leadership in mind. However, you will find pearls of wisdom that... Read more...
Reality Always Wins
August 25, 2008
Leading With Kindness could just as well have been titled, Leading With Respect – respect for others and ultimately a healthy self-respect. Leadership, if properly... Read more...
What Do You Mean “Urgent Patience”?
August 22, 2008
An article in the September 2008 Portfolio magazine under the title Speed Kills, reports that “when Carlos Ghosn took over as CEO of Renault, he instituted a... Read more...
How to Develop and Maintain a Sense of Urgency
August 21, 2008
Leadership and change expert John Kotter finds that the number one problem organizations face when trying to execute change is creating a sense of urgency. Unfortunately, that is the first... Read more...
Positive Leadership
August 19, 2008
The Harvard Business Review recognized Positive Organizational Scholarship as one the Breakthrough Ideas of 2004. Kim Cameron, cofounder of the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship at the University of Michigan, has presented some of the ideas... Read more...
Out of Context: The Lengthened Shadows of Leaders
August 14, 2008
“A company doesn’t fail to do anything. Individuals do, and when you probe a bit you usually find that failure lies not in a litany of strategic mistakes... Read more...
Are You Having a No-Good, Very-Bad Day?
August 13, 2008
If you are like most of us, anything going on but what you want, warrants a complaint. Not an action-oriented, let’s get this solved kind of complaint, but your everyday... Read more...
5 Leadership Lessons: Jim McNerney’s Top Tips For Implementing Innovation
August 9, 2008
In Business Management magazine, senior editor Ben Tompson reports on Jim McNerney’s focus on innovation at Boeing – specifically in the development of the 787 Dreamliner. Never-ending incremental improvements are vital both to sustaining current... Read more...
Can You Lead With Kindness?
August 6, 2008
Bill Baker and Michael O’Malley have done a service with their book, Leading With Kindness. As awkward as that title might seem at first blush, the authors aren’t suggesting that kind leaders... Read more...
Are You a PITA?
August 4, 2008
I first heard the term PITA (Pain In The Ass) when referring to clients or coworkers from friend and international consultant to accountancy firms,... Read more...
