Although a main attribute of leadership is extracting the skill out of those being led, nothing can truly happen as effectively as possible if the right tools are not in place to harness the abilities and skills of said “followers.”
A leader can have the best intentions for those they lead to deliver and succeed, and those being led might have an equal amount of…
Can business step in to make government more effective?
From the outside, these two institutions may look very different, but at their core, there is so much they have in common. How far apart are these worlds, really?
Because business has suffered some well-known, controversial, and ethical wounds and maintained some long-lasting scars in its own world, it’s easy to imagine – and expect – the…
Weekly leadership and professional development lessons seem to be ripe for the taking in the era of the Trump Administration.
This past week, President Trump continued declaring his distrust of the media, hammering the mainstream outlets during his now-infamous first major press conference since assuming the Presidency.
During the presser, which he peppered with more unsubstantiated claims, Trump continued claiming how fake the media was, calling out outlets…
Leadership and professional development culminate in, ultimately, a goal we have for ourselves, but it begins by serving others.
It begins with serving others because, very rarely, can such goals be accomplished without others buying into, believing and investing in, or contributing to what we are trying to achieve, whether they are customers, staff, or other stakeholders.
And there are various ways to serve others.
First and foremost, we can provide others with focused…
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election has already gone down as one of the most contentious, divisive, and combative election cycles in United States history.
The term “trickle-down,” aside from being used for economic purposes, could also be used to describe how these antagonistic feelings cascaded from the Presidential campaign down to the Congressional elections, to the state elections, and finally into the general public, impacting the relationships of citizens, friends,…
Disrupting the balance in an environment undermines the steps one can take to evolve and improve the environment. Through disruption which is too powerful and “unhinged,” you risk not just resetting policies, but relationships.
Politics aside, leadership needs to be about assurance and reassurance. Part of those assurances is that, in addition to meeting the goal desired by and for the organization, a minimal level of stability needs to exist in…
In the game of chess, for each move made and piece utilized, there is a reason which could be revealed either immediately or a few moves later.
Whether the moved piece is used in that instant to make a fatal blow to the opposing side or for setting the stage for another piece to make the blow in a coming step,…
The Brexit Referendum has come and gone, and through it the people of the United Kingdom–England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland–decided to leave the European Union with the decision to leave winning by a relatively slim margin. There are various reasons both sides of the argument supported their side and opposed the other when it came to the vote of whether or not to stay with the…
You should not take your friends for granted, but you should definitely take advantage of them.
This does not mean taking advantage of them in the traditional sense, where they are used to their detriment for your gain, but instead to take advantage of the value that they provide.
It means looking to your friends and the example that they set. Much in the way it is…
Everyone loves great customer service. Great experiences of customer service are few and far between, and almost unbelievable. It might get to a point where it seems so good to be true that it almost feels as if someone is playing a cruel joke on us.
It’s so rare, but it’s also something that we wish we would encounter more often, and that…
It’s always been advised that one should never judge a book by a cover. Hand-in-hand with that advice is the understanding that we should not make assumptions about anything or anyone.
These pieces of advice have as much to do with leadership as they do with surveying one’s entire environment and keeping an open mind as one seeks a familiar, supportive, and safe environment in which to proceed,…
There are two types of particular ROT. One is Return on Time (ROT) and the other is, well, rot.
Upper-case ROT and lower-case rot are each spelled in their respective ways for a reason. The former serves as an acronym for Return on Time (ROT), representing a gauge or measurement such as Return on Investment (ROI) or Return on Assets (ROA), etc., and the latter carries…
Leadership Lesson: Be sure to think past the words of advice, and consider who’s providing them, what the context is, and the lessons being conveyed in them, before you dismiss them as cliché. #communication #conversations #coaching ow.ly/QjPS30mzXcq
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