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Can You Lead Your Mom With Renewed Spirit? How everyday leadership works
Posted on May 12, 2013 | 3 CommentsFriends, I returned Sunday from the Oregon coast (which by the way struck me as though it was a marvelous cousin to the lands of the Lake Michigan dunes). I was on a retreat with 11 other men looking to renew “meaning in the middle... -
Let Yourself Be Led by Those You Ostensibly Lead
Posted on May 6, 2013 | 4 CommentsFriends, Sometimes I wonder: Have I gotten too soft, when so many of my Reading for Leading blogs are about relationship? But then I figure: how else can you lead or be led, except in relationship? And this past week offered three ripe examples, one... -
What To Do When Your People – You Among Them – Screw Up
Posted on April 29, 2013 | 4 CommentsFriends, What if you screwed up a lot? Made judgment calls that didn’t work. Relied confidently on past experience only to find out that there were different variables at play this time. What if your people messed up a lot, like missed their goal 70%... -
If You Want to Empower then Make the Medium the Message
Posted on April 22, 2013 | 6 CommentsFriends, On Wednesday, I had one of the most fun times I have ever had presenting to a group. Nate Butki invited me to speak on a panel in L.A. at the Great Places to Work Conference. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re the... -
How Do You Model the Way – Check out the new Pope!
Posted on April 1, 2013 | 10 CommentsFriends, Have you been watching the new Pope? Like all great leaders — would that be YOU??? — he demonstrates a powerful sense of symbols to model a way for others. His actions remind me of the line attributed to the awesome spiritual leader, Mahatma... -
Managing a Challenging Manager
Posted on March 25, 2013 | 7 CommentsFriends, A wonderful recent college grad was seeking advice … about how to give advice. Her organization is one that’s trying to do the right thing by giving the front line (where she is) lots of feedback AND asking for lots of feedback from them... -
Can Reading for Leading Be Fun? Is March — Madness?
Posted on March 18, 2013 | 5 CommentsFriends, Today’s column is really NOT about hoops (much as I love the game). It’s about how brackets are both really cool — for reasons I do not understand — and can be kind of useful. So, just for kicks I have created my own... -
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...
