Leadership is not necessarily a function of age. Get some young tigers and old lions in your organization. – Joel Ross
Leadership is Critical!
Today, managers have to also be effective leaders. Getting the work done is no longer enough. Team members must be engaged and retained. In my leadership articles, I discuss strategies you can use to gain the support of your team members, create a work environment that improves productivity, and maintain the loyalty of your team even when you have to make difficult decisions.
Everyone you meet is a potential winner; some are disguised as losers. Don’t be fooled by their appearances. – Ken Blanchard
George Lucas’s latest film Red Tails is the true, inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen who were American pilots and heroes in World War II. It recounts the story of American men who wanted to fight for their country in real combat but were not initially allowed to do so because they were considered unqualified [...]
If we lose our core values, we lose ourselves. – Henry McCoy
Had he not been taken from us so young, being only 39 years old, Dr. Martin Luther King would have been 83 years old today. His commitment to non-violent, direct action to address our country’s sad history of race relations is now acknowledged worldwide as one of America’s greatest achievements in the last century. Dr. [...]
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. – John C. Maxwell
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ [...]
