A Maxim For Leaders For 2011
I heard this advice quoted the other day and wanted to share it. It’s from William Arthur Ward, one of America’s most quoted writers of inspirational maxims: Do more than belong: participate. Do more...
View ArticleLeadership Quotes
I really like these motivating and inspiring quotes from the September 2011 issue of Men’s Health magazine: The best way to predict the future is to invent it — Alan Kay Nothing great was ever...
View ArticleWords of Leadership & Management Wisdom From John P. Kotter
Here are some words of wisdom from a 1990 Harvard Business Review article by John P. Kotter: Leadership complements management; it doesn’t replace it. Management controls people by pushing them in the...
View ArticleKevin Cashman On Leadership Versus Management
Today, I share some of my favorite quotes from Kevin Cashman’s new book, The Pause Principle. “What sleep is to the mind and body, pause is to leadership and innovation.” “Managers assert drive and...
View ArticleFind The Truth In The Middle
If you’re a parent of two children you already know that when the two are fighting and child #1 tells you what happened, you then ask child #2 what happened, and most often the truth is somewhere in...
View ArticleWhat Managers Don’t Do
According to David Grossman, author of the popular book, You Can’t Not Communicate-2, here are eight things employees say managers don’t do: Don’t keep employees informed. Don’t explain the “why”...
View ArticleThe Seven Roles Of A Collaborative Leader
Edward M. Marshall’s book, Transforming The Way We Work — The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace, remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the...
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