Greetings Leaders! I’ve been contemplating a situation that many of us have seen before. An organization spends a lot of money and time on building a culture of trust, openness and transparency. Yet, the changes don’t take and the company culture doesn’t change as expected. What gives?
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Greetings Leaders! Like many of you, I have been watching the events unfold surrounding Jerry Sandusky, Penn St. and Joe Paterno. The NCAA came out with its ruling the other day. $60 million in fines and vacating all of Coach Paterno’s wins from 1998. I’ve also been watching the responses. Some calling it unfair. Others saying
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Greetings Leaders! This is the 15th posting in the series The Path of the Honorable Leader. Accountability. Holding others and self to be responsible for one’s actions. The Honorable Leader knows that there are no excuses. That whatever we do, we are responsible for the results. If we can take credit for the good, we
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Greetings Leaders… 2nd in the Series The Path of the Honorable Leader. The Honorable Leader is a fighter. He fights for causes that matter. A cause is imprinted on his heart. His path is filled with challenges to overcome that will make the world a better place to live.
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Greetings Leaders! I was driving to my favorite Starbucks this morning when I heard a short story on the number of measures that might be on the ballot this coming year in California. There are about 80 measures that special interest groups are promoting, and to get the measures on the ballot they each have
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Greetings Leaders! I recently read Wally Bock’s blog where he commented on Bob Sutton’s blog on a NY Times article written by Randy Cohen titled, “When Layoffs Are Immoral“. The article and the responses were thought povoking to say the least, and I wanted to add another perspective. Randy Cohen raised some very interesting points
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I was listening to Fresh Air on National Public Radio this morning while driving between clients and they were discussing the Spanish Court’s investigation of the Bush Administration’s role in the torture of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay. What caught my attention was the discussion of SERE School (Survival Escape Resistance and Evasion) having been
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I just finished reading an article written by Thomas Friedman called Are We Home Alone?. The article, an Op-Ed in the New York Times, was about the lack of Inspirational leadership in our government and corporations. Friedman’s comments were well put and timely. I want to expound just a bit on his basic premise that
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