Reaching Your Potential
There was an interesting discussion on an association listserver yesterday that started with a discussion of bereavement policies, and ended up talking a bit about human nature, the difference between work and fulfillmen ...
Category: Leadership
Who Have You Pissed Off Lately?
Thanks to Kevin Holland for his blog response to yesterday's post. He is generally in agreement, but I couldn't help repeat this quote:You either want to be THIS, or you don’t. Before you decide that’s what you want to b ...
Speaking the Truth
The October HBR has an interview with Rory Stewart, who has been involved in trying to do rebuilding in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a remarkable person who has done amazing things, but I was struck by one part of the int ...
Leaders as Special Individuals
I recently discovered an interesting blog called Managing Leadership, by Jim Stroup. His last several posts have been a series that is challenging the notion that there is some kind of distinct leadership personality, th ...
The Informal Organization
Jon Katzenbach is a co-author of one of my favorite books, The Wisdom of Teams. He was a consultant at McKinsey and then created his own firm, Katzenbach Partners. They have recently released a report, titled The Informa ...
What About Love?
Tom Peters has a very interesting point on his blog about the basic principles that underlie all the good management books out there. He argues that the basic principles get less attention than do the newest programs in ...
Re-Tuning Your Radar
Guy Kawasaki pointed me to an interesting report about internet trends done by Avenue A/Razorfish. You can get the 104 page report for free as a PDF. While the whole area of internet advertising and web site design is no ...
The Power of Conversations
There is yet another good article in the Sloan Management Review this summer, this one focusing on an important problem in project management: silence. I think it goes beyond project management, but the article points to ...
Do Work and Psychology Mix?
Although I don’t need a new book to put on my list, Guy Kawasaki points me to one that looks very interesting: Egonomics: What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (and Most Expensive Liability), by David Marcum and Steven Smith ...
Why Tom Peters Gets Out of Bed
Tom Peters did some end-of-summer thinking about why he does what he does, and wrote it up in a little white paper. Here is the first sentence (without his parenthetical clauses and some editing):Passionate servant leade ...