Greetings Leaders! I’ve given a lot of thought to what constitutes leadership, and I sometimes think we’re mixing apples and oranges. Is it our job as leaders to ensure that people in our organization feel good about themselves? Is it our purpose to help them find fulfilling work, or to provide the work and let […]
Confusing Leadership With “Feeling Good” Read More »
Greetings Leaders, I was a guest on talk radio today as part of a panel discussing leadership. The topic was Where Have All the Leaders Gone? The discussion was lively and a lot of attention was focused on why leaders behave badly. More specifically, we asked the question, does the end justify the means? Why
Why Do Leaders Behave Badly? Read More »
Greetings Leaders! My daughter and I were watching Tabatha’s Salon Takeover on Bravo the other night where one of the hairstylists was obviously a poor performer. She wasn’t great at time management, talked incessantly about herself, disregarded her client’s time constraints, was a poor listener, didnt’ take criticism to heart and was a drag on
How To Handle Poor Performance – Salon Takeover Read More »
Greetings Leaders! The Cloud has become a hot topic in business. What is The Cloud you ask? It has its origins, I think, in the network diagrams that techies have drawn for years. You know, that weird diagram that often gets drawn on a whiteboard that depicts some computers and a server, connected to a
The Cloud and Project Management Read More »
Debbie Laskey – Guest Expert In October 2010, everyone was talking about how a certain clothing company presented itself to its customers and competitors. The discussion was not limited to professional marketers and advertisers as consumers and members of the media also chimed in. Oddly, the discussion wasn’t focused on product quality or the launch
Leadership Void in the Gap Logo Fiasco Read More »
Greeting Leaders! The other night my wife and I were discussing the Great Depression for a paper she was writing for a class on Democratic Citizenship. The readings for the class included philosophical debates about Capitalism, Socialism and Communism leading up to the New Deal put in place by President Roosevelt. I love my country
Leadership and Capitalism Read More »
Greetings Leaders! I was sitting at Starbucks yesterday morning day trading, when a very casual acquaintance came up and asked me where I thought the economy was going. I shrugged. He then proceeded to tell me that President Obama was a communist and heathen and that the he was (apparently) single-handedly responsible for destroying our
To Glenn Beck – To Help America Recover – Stop and Think Read More »
Greetings Leaders! This is the first in a series on how to get people to listen to you. You may find that although you have greet ideas and are full of enthusiasm and knowledge, that no one listens to you. You can get people to listen if you play your cards right. Today we’ll talk
Why People Don’t Listen To You – Respect Read More »
Greetings Leaders! I had an interesting discussion the other day with some executives about Organizational Change Management. They asked what I thought Change Management meant to me. It sounds like it would be an obvious answer, but it is not as obvious as it might first appear.
What Is Organizational Change Management Read More »
Greetings Leaders! I belong to a leadership group on Linked In where this question was asked: “Are Women Leaders Better Than Men? The discussion generated over 1,000 comments, so obviously it is something many people have an interest in. My take? In my humble opinion, unless you are trying to sell books or fund a
Are Women Better Leaders Than Men? A Question You Should Never Ask Read More »
