Tag: leadership
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Uncommon Leadership
I like to study organizations and the people that makeup them up. I enjoy studying how people can have the same title and yet perform completely different. We love an underdog story. We love watching organizations with less resources out perform larger well funded organizations. Organizations with enthusiastic leaders and people will outperform mediocre ones.…
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Obscurity
I had to make a decision early on in this job. I could put my hours in and appear to be a leader and collect my paycheck and never gain leadership influence or, I could go through the long awkward path of obscurity to gain influence. It’s possible to create a platform of influence without…
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The Middle Phase
The middle phase of any venture, in my opinion, is the most difficult to push through. I believe breakthroughs, innovations and advancements have been missed by millions of people because they gave up in the middle phase of a venture. The middle phase is where thousands of great dreams, inventions, skill sets and innovations lay…
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Bears. Trains & You
Leaders, we need to spend time developing our product, our delivery systems, our future destinations and goals. Helping develop young leaders is one great way to help that process take place. Empowering young leaders will carry our mission further and faster than we ever expected.
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Past, Present and Future: It’s a Generational Perspective
I wonder what would happen if companies would prepare for the inevitable departure that is going to occur of the older generations as they reach retirement age and leave the workforce. What would happen we could partner the generations together and have millennials learn from older generations and vice-versa.
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Revealing
I really tried to think of some excuse that would cover my butt. In my 14 year-old-life, I had never really had to deal with something like this before.
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That Person. Them. Those People.
If we spend time wallowing in our sorrows and wishing things would happen to us, we’ll waste the potential given to us.
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3 Ways to Make 2018 YOUR Best Year Ever
If that were the case then we’ve got to mature just by getting older. If that were the case I wouldn’t be tempted to relive my glory days in high school and retell those stories. Uncle Rico wouldn’t keep reminding us that he could throw a pigskin a quarter mile either. Do you know an…
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Just a little Man Spreading here….
My younger sister brought this idea to my attention recently, man spreading. She flew into Chicago on a Friday night and as we picked her up at Midway Airport she just had to get her frustration off her chest. Here’s what she had to say. First, let me just say this is not a complaint…
Marc Ulrich 