Another Day You’ve been in meetings all day. Your interruptions have been interrupted. In fact, you’re not even sure which interruption started everything today. The morning, (Did you even eat lunch?) seems like light-years ago. Is it Wednesday already? For just a minute, you wish for the good-old-days – you know, six months ago, before » Read More
5 Reasons Curious Leadership Will Strengthen Your Organization: Exploring fills you with a sense of adventure, learning how things work and why they work that way makes your every cell in your body dance! In your explorations, you turn things over and look underneath them. You dig in the dirt and examine everything you find. Squiggly things » Read More
Earlier this week I was visiting with another Lead Change Contributing Author and Entrepreneur, Shawn Murphy (@shawmu & LeadChange profile). Our conversation quickly reminded each of us that we are not alone as we experience some natural tension between our vision and our reality: How do you balance faith and ownership? When do you seek » Read More
The success of a company lies in the ability of its leader. A great leader like Lee Iacocca can help a company on a verge of going out of business to recover its position in the market. A leader inspires people to achieve things they otherwise cannot do themselves. Great leaders create a vision and » Read More
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining who we are.Max De Pree
Max De Pree is the former CEO and Chairman of Herman Miller Furniture
What do these things have in common? Fire; the wheel; the plow. Electricity; the internet; the iPhone. Galileo; Newton; Einstein. Martin Luther King Jr.; Gandhi; Jesus. Each of these items or individuals caused an irreversible disruption in the course of human history. Their influence is so tightly woven into the fabric of our daily lives that » Read More
We get off the plane in Chicago, my daughters and I, enroute to South Carolina. With a 3 hour layover ahead of us, we take our time. We check the monitors for our connecting gate: A 11. I look up: we stand at gate B-15. It’s a long walk through Midway airport, past all the » Read More
Here’s an interesting post and story by Mark Sturgell (@pdncoach) related to the post I wrote a couple of weeks ago entitled Change Leaders or Change Leaders? Check out Mark’s post and leave him a comment if you appreciate his story.
Do we transform existing leaders… or get new leaders? Can we embark on a set of activities designed to encourage people already in leadership positions to change their behavior? Will current leaders change their ways? Are there actions we can take to encourage those already “in charge” to act and think differently than they did » Read More
Leaders are known to inspire others to act and achieve goals that they otherwise would not be able to achieve themselves. They challenge the status quo and break down barriers to help their constituents achieve their vision. In many ways, leaders make things happen and affect change that moves the needle and transforms the company » Read More
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