Election and Leadership Lessons
I would like to change the focus of Tuesday’s election results from a political perspective to one of leadership and accountability. Earlier in the week, Mark Sanborn summarized the election results in a very clear, political blog post. I have already referenced some of his comment in a previous post.
From Mark’s post, I gleaned six quotes [...]
If Your Employees Could Vote?
What would happen if your employees voted on your performance as a leader in your organization? How would you fare? Do you really care? If you knew that they would vote you out, would you examine your role and your behaviors? To what standard are you holding yourself accountable?
Here are two facts that would likely [...]
The Challenges in Business Leadership
There is an ongoing consensus that one of the biggest challenges in business is leadership related. When discussing the various issues businesses face, at some point in time, the conversation swings to the accountability, roles, and influences leaders have on the overall success of an organization.
On the surface, nothing has a greater impact on the [...]
Influences on the Decision Making Process
When it comes to the decision making process, every great leader relies on information as an essential resource. The decision making process requires some level of gathered, shared, or stored information before action is taken. Often leaders rely on sources they trust or have found reliable, including their gut instincts, to supply them with facts [...]
True Leaders Surface in Tough Times
It is in the midst of struggles and challenges that true leaders surface. With all the content and talk around leadership, it is obvious our economic, political, and corporate worlds are all looking for its leaders. Not wanting to get caught up in the chatter about what defines a leader, I wanted to share my [...]
It’s Your People Stupid!
The success of any business is dependent upon the effectiveness of the people in it. “You want results? Time to start re-investing in your people“, is a great blog post by Olivier Blanchard, This post hit so many great points that I don’t need to belabor many of them. Just read it. If you want [...]
Romancing Your Legacy
We often like to romance our impact or our legacy at the companies we worked at. Take the simple honesty test. When you left your last position, whether it was by force or choice, did you leave it in a better place than when you arrived? Having engaged in debate lately about how difficult it [...]
Your Business Needs a Life Style Change, not a Diet
What most businesses really need is a “lifestyle change” not a “diet”. We all know how diets work, especially the trendy ones. Trendy diets focus on cutting out certain food groups, eat specially prepared munchies, or take revolutionary pills and presto–the weight falls off. Six to nine months later, the weight plus is back. [...]
The Standard for an Effective, Influential Leader
Most of us have a person that is their standard for an effective, influential leader and role model. That person may have been a coach, a teacher, a politician, minister, mentor, owner or boss. Regardless of who it was, there is someone who had played a significant role in our lives and who we [...]
Confronting Risk in Turbulent Times
One of the biggest challenges confronting business owners in turbulent times is risk mitigation. Keeping the businesses running without exposing it to any more disruptions or threats is foremost on most business owners minds.
Unfortunately, this protectionist mindset is probably the biggest obstacle to moving the business forward and into a stronger, more viable place.
A recent [...]
