Leadership Reflections

Ahh rats!  You hear a really great story that makes a really good point and you want to use it in your blog, and then you fact check and it turns out to be, well, not quite true!  Nuts, but I told it anyway.  Before you read this post, you should read the story, which [...]

“As a member of the leadership team, each person is responsible for fulfilling the following roles… Supporter of the CEO, supporting and advancing the CEO’s agenda both publicly and privately.” Nadler & Nadler, “Performance on the Executive Team: When to pull the trigger” in Executive Teams. Throw a stone into calm water and some waves will ripple [...]

Now that I am in Europe, I can look back on my time in Asia and Africa and draw some summative conclusions that might challenge you in a good way. I could have telephoned or emailed all the people whom I met and got a good portion of the information that I now have, but [...]

Now there came a day when, in the court of the King, His heavenly subjects were before Him and Satan was found to be among them again.  The crowd murmured against him, but Satan, though defeated, had not yet reached the end of his time.  And seeking to spread his misery, he approached the King.  [...]

While serving as president of the University of Cincinnati, leadership guru Warren Bennis was teaching a course at Harvard’s School of Education when someone asked him, “Do you love being President of the University of Cincinnati?”  After an uncomfortable silence, Warren replied, “I don’t know.”  He wrote about this incident in Managing The Dream:  The [...]