Are You Leading or Merely Producing?
Samantha exuded leadership. Hell, since the age of twelve, she’d held leadership roles. Captain of the soccer team. President of her neighborhood “Kids’ Committee.” Student Council Vice President,...
View ArticleA Philosophical Aside on Leadership….
For the most part, I keep my own (fervent) political views out of this blog. There’s a time and a place for such expressions, and I steadfastly silo my social media interactions about my personal...
View ArticleDon’t Be Afraid To Mix It Up!
You know what I love most about start-up founders? The endless possibilities they foresee! It’s refreshing. It’s exhilarating. And it’s imperative…but not just for start-ups. I recently had the...
View ArticleRoom for One: Corporate Culture & Life Rafts
Sarah exhaled, a relieved sigh that only came as the company’s doors shut behind her. A weight, a tension that had built first in her shoulders and eventually gnawed at her gut like the early spoiling...
View ArticleWhat Do You Like Best About Your Job?
Not always the easiest question to answer, particularly when your “job” entails so many disparate parts as mine seems to. Teaching. Mentoring. Writing. Coaching. Assessing. Designing....
View ArticleHazing: A Badge of Ignorance, Not Honor
Rites of Passage. They are as American, it would seem, as baseball and apple pie. At least, from the cries of those who tout them as absolutely necessary to create a bond between team members, you’d...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Self-Direction
For the past several years, I’ve taught a graduate course on adult learning. In total, I’ve probably had over 50 master’s degree students take this class. And overwhelmingly, they have expressed...
View ArticleEngagement: It’s Leadership, Not a Program
Within the telecommunications industry, ACME was considered a giant. It’s shareholder value continued to rise, slowly, but always on a positive trajectory. For customer service, in a field known for...
View ArticleChange! Or Stop Waving the Culture Banner….
Ask anyone who’s interacted with me professionally over the past decade. I’m a organizational culture advocate, perhaps a fanatic. Zappos. Google. IBM. Microsoft. U. S. Army or Navy. Each one...
View ArticleStop Engaging Your Workforce, and Simply Lead!
Over the past few years, I’ve written more about engagement and efforts by organizational leaders to create engaged cultures than nearly anything else. There’s a reason for my laser focus on this...
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