I try to write things in this blog that get us thinking outside of the traditional thinking and skills covered or discussed in most organizational leadership development training. Hopefully this post will succeed – because that is exactly the point I am trying to make. Let’s start at the beginning. Leaders exist to move people [...]
As leaders we all know that we are leading people into the future. And while the future is always murky, and we are never exactly sure what our desitiona will look like, few of us lead the way Amelia Earhart did. 72 years ago today she and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific [...]
When I was visiting Law School’s this past fall during the midst of the economic meltdown, I saw how two Law School Dean’s reacted to their potential new law students firing questions at them. Both of the Dean’s leadership skills were evident from just 5 minutes of Q and A. These short 5 minutes showed [...]