Or you’ll face the wrong problem as you back into the future On Days Like This (Van Morrison), when I Can’t Tell The Bottom From The Top (The Hollies) and everything is Over My Head (Fleetwood Mac), what’s a Poor Boy (Steve Earle) gonna do? I suppose this is just The Trouble With Normal (Bruce…
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Why Fear Is Not a Leadership Game
The missing link in leadership Have you heard the one about me being charged by a lioness? Of course you have! I keep telling it. Because she changed me. She taught me something about fear (obviously). And she gave me an insight into leadership (not so obvious). I got away from her because here I…
Effective Leaders Are Two-Faced
But there’s a right and a wrong way to be two-faced … … According to ancient Roman religion, Janus is the god of beginnings, transitions, and endings. He is the god with two faces, because he looks in two directions at once, the past and the future. Do you want to be an effective leader?…
Pick a Mask, Any Mask
Wearing a mask is normal. It’s part of social lubrication. … … By now you should be used to wearing a mask in public. Let me reword that. As a leader, you are used to wearing a mask. You put on a mask to project (a message; a mood) and you put on a mask…
A bully at the top promotes team work
– The typical organization is a hierarchy of imbalanced power, which makes it a perfect bully factory. Unless the leaders stop it. And most sensible leaders do prevent it because they know that corporate bullying makes your best people disappear. But what if the top gun is the bully? I once joined a company of…
Here’s the one skill we don’t need in our leaders
– If there is one thing I have learned in the land obsessed with leadership, then it’s this. I’m a silly old fool. To me, leadership is about leading. And leading implies movement, not standing still. It is about going places, not staying put in one place. Based on this view of leadership, I believe…
