Do You Suffer From Any of These Energy Drains?
September 19, 2008
In our fast-paced, twenty-four hour society we are constantly distracted and diverted from working on what we should be working on. It creates lives of almost habitual scatteredness. Focus is the sine qua non of reaching our potential. This scatteredness... Read more...
Out of Context: Leading People Through Change
September 18, 2008
“Unless leaders take time to surface and resolve individual concerns, they will be unable to generate and maintain the momentum necessary for the change to be successful. One of the primary reasons many change efforts fail is because leaders do... Read more...
Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office
September 17, 2008
Apparently, Nice Guys Can Get the Corner Office. The problem isnt being a nice guy (or gal), the problem is in finding the right balance. Its having the emotional intelligence to know how to interact with others without giving away the store. This book... Read more...
Developing Diamonds in the Rough
September 15, 2008
Nancy Ortberg is an alumnus of Willow Creek Community Church and is a founding partner of TeamWorx2, a business and leadership consulting firm to businesses, schools, nonprofits, and churches. She has made a important observation concerning leadership... Read more...
Bad Is Stronger Than Good
September 13, 2008
In an article that appeared in the Review of General Psychology titled Bad Is Stronger Than Good (PDF), the authors—Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer and Vohs—conclude that bad events have stronger and more lasting consequences than comparable... Read more...
Are You a Socially Intelligent Leader?
September 11, 2008
Daniel Goleman has an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review that updates his previous work on social intelligence and leadership. In Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership, Goleman writes that the most relevant finding coming... Read more...
Our Performances Matter: The Encore Effect
September 8, 2008
What is the encore effect? It is delivering what you do so well that you are asked to do it again and again. Its people wanting more of what you do best. No matter what we do, we are showcasing who we are and what we care about. As we go through our day... Read more...
Bill Hybels on Growing as a Leader
September 5, 2008
I have little patience with leaders who get themselves into leadership binds and then confess that they havent read a leadership book in years. If youre a serious-minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like... Read more...
Out of Context: A Person of Character
September 4, 2008
Marvin Olasky writes in the American Leadership Tradition about the need for moral leadership: Americans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries generally understood that if great Solomons reign could disintegrate, how much more readily could the... Read more...
5 Leadership Lessons: The First Billion Is the Hardest
September 2, 2008
Now at eighty, T. Boone Pickens looks back on his past, his comeback and future in The First Billion Is the Hardest. (I dont know about you, but Ive found that to be so true.) He also shares a few thoughts on leadership and management: Leadership... Read more...
