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How to Choose a Role Model for Maximum Effect – a mini column
20 May 2013 12:26 AM | 2 Comments -
Can You Lead Your Mom With Renewed Spirit? How everyday leadership works
12 May 2013 11:17 PM | 3 Comments -
Let Yourself Be Led by Those You Ostensibly Lead
06 May 2013 2:33 AM | 4 Comments -
What To Do When Your People – You Among Them – Screw Up
29 April 2013 2:48 AM | 4 Comments -
If You Want to Empower then Make the Medium the Message
22 April 2013 1:22 AM | 6 Comments -
Share your thoughts!
15 April 2013 10:54 AM | 16 Comments -
If You Want to Lead Get Ready for This!
08 April 2013 1:47 AM | 8 Comments -
How Do You Model the Way – Check out the new Pope!
01 April 2013 2:15 AM | 10 Comments
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How to Choose a Role Model for Maximum Effect – a mini column
20 May 2013 12:26 AM | 2 Comments -
Can You Lead Your Mom With Renewed Spirit? How everyday leadership works
12 May 2013 11:17 PM | 3 Comments -
Let Yourself Be Led by Those You Ostensibly Lead
06 May 2013 2:33 AM | 4 Comments -
What To Do When Your People – You Among Them – Screw Up
29 April 2013 2:48 AM | 4 Comments -
If You Want to Empower then Make the Medium the Message
22 April 2013 1:22 AM | 6 Comments -
Share your thoughts!
15 April 2013 10:54 AM | 16 Comments -
If You Want to Lead Get Ready for This!
08 April 2013 1:47 AM | 8 Comments -
How Do You Model the Way – Check out the new Pope!
01 April 2013 2:15 AM | 10 Comments
How to Choose a Role Model for Maximum Effect – a mini column
How to Choose a Role Model for Maximum Effect – a mini column
Quicken Loans – How Employees Matter
Can You Lead Your Mom With Renewed Spirit? How everyday leadership works
Can You Lead Your Mom With Renewed Spirit? How everyday leadership works
Can You Lead Your Mom With Renewed Spirit? How everyday leadership works
Let Yourself Be Led by Those You Ostensibly Lead
One Way to Know How Excellent You Have Become
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What to do When You’re Dreading Something
Posted on March 11, 2013 | 10 CommentsFriends, When I woke him up for the second time on Sunday morning, my beloved son had that 15 year old’s look of anxious dread, and he breathed the heavy sigh to confirm it. I stole my own deep breath and sat on the side... -
How (Some) Women Lead and What They Can Teach
Posted on March 4, 2013 | 3 CommentsFriends, After a lunch on Friday, one of my students told her female classmate, and then told me, “You’re a pusher.” I’m not sure if today’s students understand that back in the day, a pusher, was a drug pusher,* but they knew it still didn’t... -
How to Double Your Leadership Effectiveness
Posted on February 24, 2013 | 8 CommentsFriends, In Sunday’s New York Times, the great novelist Elmore Leonard (University of Detroit High School, 1943) imagines what his father would say to Elmore’s mother about the current situation at the Vatican: “You see, we’re gonna have two popes at the same time... -
Lincoln, Washington, You – stature and leadership
Posted on February 18, 2013 | 5 CommentsFriends, To paraphrase Tina Turner, “What’s height got to do with it?” Well, it seems like a lot. When George Washington at 6’1″ served as first president he was literally a head taller than many of his cohorts: John Adams was 5’7″ and James Madison... -
She/he asks: What can we learn when things don’t go as expected?
Posted on February 10, 2013 | 5 CommentsFriends, My wife Jennifer, son Jack and I panted and fussed our way over the considerable hills of Oakland on Sunday. Jen signed us up for a Terraloco run (“crazy earth”) a 5K unlike any we’d experienced. About 75 people met in the Leaning Tower... -
What Men Say, What Women Hear
Posted on February 4, 2013 | 4 CommentsSpecial 12th Anniversary Guest Column By Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster We recently appeared on a late-night television show to promote our new book, Mean Girls at Work. Our hosts, two male comedians, were very surprised to learn that women react to teasing, sparring and criticism very differently... -
Would Dad Be Proud of You?
Posted on January 28, 2013 | 11 CommentsFriends, My sister Mary emailed this photo to me and our 5 brothers and sisters. Her note said, “Dad would have been proud.” And she was so right. Our old man served on the city council in Inkster, Michigan (about 1/20 the size of Tampa,... -
When Your Family, Team, or Group Keeps Getting Divided
Posted on January 22, 2013 | 7 CommentsFriends, Dang! Things come apart so easily. For example(s): A staff member keeps creating conflict with you or others. Your boss seems like she came from a different planet; she never smiles, and that’s not funny. One of your kids is a challenge-a-minute. The... -
So You Want To Be Part of a Great Team?
Posted on January 14, 2013 | 2 CommentsDear Friends, “So You Want To Be Part of a Great Team?” I ask, as did Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith in their book The Wisdom of Teams. The “why” you’d want to is obvious, and likely two-fold. First, teams generate results. A great team is... -
Great Leaders Use Influence, Not Power
Posted on January 7, 2013 | 2 CommentsSpecial 12th Anniversary Guest Column JOEL GARFINKLE: Great Leaders Use Influence, Not Power Many leaders confuse influence with power. However, there is a vast difference between the two and the simple act of learning that difference and how to use it can move your career ahead in unexpected ways....
