Posts Tagged ‘strategic thinking’
Four Leadership Lessons From The Emperor’s New Clothes
Childhood is full of stories that are passed down from one generation to another. These stories often allow adults to both coax their high-energy kids to go to sleep while also teaching some life lesson. Like most children, I loved to hear these stories (even if I did not always get the life lesson). There was that…
Read MoreBold Leadership: Vision Without Fear
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. Robert Jarvik What is Bold Leadership? This is a great quote from the designer of the artificial heart. It makes sense that a visionary leader does not live in fear. Fear is paralyzing and a fearful individual…
Read MoreFind Your Four Voices For Decision Making and Innovative Problem Solving
An Early Management Lesson One of the best lessons I learned as a new business manager in my early twenties was that I did not have to possess all of the answers to make the right decisions about how to meet our workplace objectives. This lesson didn’t come easy. In fact, I had to fall…
Read MoreMust Read: Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment (Part 2)
In my first post on Guy Kawasaki’s book, Enchantment, I gave an introduction on why his book is a “must read” for anyone wanting to be successful in this new millennium. As I related, Guy’s unique journey at Apple at the time of their early innovative breakthroughs was the genesis for the idea of enchantment–the…
Read MoreUnderstanding Group Dynamics
Every group has its rules on behavior and they’re often unwritten. Communication practices provide clues however.
Read MoreLeading Change (Step 5): Empower Broad Based Action
To make change happen, leaders have to remove organizational barriers. They have to empower others to act.
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