In each generation, the sporting world produces players, coaches, and even owners, who demonstrate a phenomenal grasp of how team leadership influences and enhances performance and in turn, produces the desired outcomes envisioned. Leaders such as football coach Vince Lombardi, baseball owner George Steinbrenner and basketball legend Michael Jordan all understood that their strength, influence …
Hello Dizzy Butterfly As I reflect upon A.J. Cronin’s (1951) passage and consider your eloquent post, it occurred to me how the stories we choose from this book really speak to who, and how we are as leaders. Your post was assertive, concise and filled me with the sense that you are very intentional and …
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Hello Daneen As it relates to Thomas Carlyle’s (1951) passage titled, Blessed is he who has found his work, thank you for sharing and describing your key insights into how perseverance and self-awareness integrate within your professional career in health care. How a leader demonstrates to themselves and to others a commitment to follow through with …
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Unlike the Roman-era power/leader-member exchange style of leadership as expressed through the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees of His time, Jesus Christ flawlessly demonstrated how to capture and appeal to, hearts and minds when one looks for “what is right with people rather than emphasizing what is wrong with them” (Searle & Barbuto Jr., 2011, p. …
As we navigate the turns, barriers and junctions along the road of leadership, the more distant the old guideposts of traditional leadership appear in the rear-view mirror. Even more so beyond contemporary thought and theory, modern-day businesses and organizations are beginning to recognize the value in performance, and to the bottom-line, when working with leaders …
Cancer. The very breath one takes before saying that word is often just as long as the silence that follows it. For those poor souls burdened with an affliction that strikes indiscriminately with murderous indifference; I ask, which process reveals itself as the true menace? The arbitrary nature of tissue destruction, or the fear that …
Hello Monica As we age, it seems that these “processes” of development throughout our lives often manifest in usual and familiar patterns. Your well-articulated post revealed a few important things relating to these patterns, especially as it relates to this “practical wisdom” you had mentioned. These stages of development seem to comfortably align with Psychologist Bruce …
Hello Norm. Not only was your post relevant to my own walk in terms of creating an environment of safety for those who wish to test theory and self-discovery, but you prompted some thoughts as it relates to process delivered and the autonomy in process created. That transfer of knowledge is key for any leader/follower relationship, …
Being fully-equipped to meet the needs and demands of today’s leadership environment can often require a methodical approach in the decision-making process. As an effective means of building consensus within the groups in which I lead, we collectively make every attempt to channel our discussions through an inquiry type process. This enables equality of voice …
Ruiz, thank you for a very thoughtful and perceptive post. I particularly appreciated the integration of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a means to unpack the John Burroughs’s passage because apart from understanding that the “secret” is in “doing something”, the measure or degree of that happiness, is directly proportional to what needs have already …
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