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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... -
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 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... -
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.... -
Risky Business – I Recommend It
Posted on November 5, 2012 | 9 CommentsFriends, My stomach has announced: the election is nearly here. My first memorable campaign was 1969, when I was in 5th grade. I could hardly sleep leading up to my dad’s mayoral election. He lost. And those stomach pains gave way to the peculiar physiological... -
Go Back to School at the School of Leadership
Posted on August 27, 2012 | 5 CommentsFriends, Let’s start quickly with TV, then to school, and on to work. Tell me why these were GREAT shows? M.A.S.H., All in the Family, Happy Days, Mary Tyler Moore. If I’m dating myself terribly, throw in The Office, How I Met Your Mother, and... -
Empowering Your People – Crazy – Like a Fox!
Posted on August 19, 2012 | 5 CommentsFriends, Here’s my favorite line from my favorite book on leadership: “Credible leaders accept and act upon the paradox of power: We become most powerful when we give our power away.” - Kouzes and Posner, The Leadership Challenge. Some never get this. They are threatened by... -
Just Reading This RFL is a Waste of Time
Posted on January 8, 2012 | 5 CommentsFriends, Here’s my Happy New Year’s wish, which is perhaps better seen as an invitation, or a taunt: LEAD YOURSELF to your best year ever. Absurd? Audacious? Well, leadership always has an element of audacity to it. President Kennedy said: we’ll put an American on... -
Hidden Sources of Power
Posted on September 6, 2011 | 6 CommentsFriends, Maybe because all four of my grandparents came to this country as young adults, I have always had a bias in favor of the gifts that newcomers bring to a culture. I am stoked at the experience I have begun in this regard. Might... -
Freelancing
Posted on August 29, 2011 | 9 CommentsFriends, I heard from two Romanians, a Hungarian, Venezuelan, Pakistani, and one American. I ran an experiment that shed an eerie light on the book that Jennifer and I have coming out in three weeks, and it also reinforced my thinking about the importance of this...
