In a New York Times interview, Michael Mathieu of YuMe describes the means and meaning of success and the associated role of management/leadership. Michael said, “the key to success is to wake up every day and do the best you can do.” If this is the key to success then leadership, at base, should enable [...]
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Hidden Lessons in Leadership #9
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Development of Self, Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, relationships on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Morality in Leadership
Posted in Leadership, Life, Morality/Ethics, tagged Business of business, Decision-making, Ethical Principles, human spirit, Leadership, Moral Values, relationships on June 24, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Moral behavior requires understanding the difference between right and wrong, and acting accordingly. However, right versus wrong can only be assessed in relation to a system of values. But this does not mean that morality is relativistic. If it was, we could not say any act is morally wrong since we would have to accept [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #8
Posted in Leadership, Relationships, tagged Development of Self, Leadership, Learning, management, relationships on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A New York Times interview with Niki Leondakis, chief operating officer of Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, speaks to a fundamental issue of management. As Niki Leondakis relates “people seem to swing to one end of the pendulum or the other — overzealous with power or, “I’m everybody’s friend, and I want them to like me, [...]
When Order Means Control
Posted in organizational design, Quality, Systems Thinking, tagged Business of business, Complexity, organizational design, Systems Thinking on June 17, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Since we organize to serve a purpose, our sense of order is context dependent, not an absolute. In other words, while everything could be in order, the order in which each is in is not the same—all order is not the same order. For example, the order of my desk suits my purposes and the [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #7
Posted in Leadership, Progress, tagged Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, Progress, relationships on June 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
As Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, stated in a recent interview, “it’s okay to try, and if it doesn’t work, learn from it, adjust and keep failing forward. And if you just fail forward all the time—learn, fail, learn, fail, learn, fail—but every single time you’re making it better and better, before you know it [...]
Enacting Fear
Posted in Leadership, Life, Relationships, tagged Business of business, Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, management, Quality, relationships on June 9, 2010 | 12 Comments »
It’s just business, nothing personal! This in not an excuse, it’s a theory. This phrase reflects the widely accepted paradigm that the conduct of business requires pragmatic impersonal interactions to ensure efficient profitable economic exchange. That is to say, the regulation of relationships is the responsibility of the market and such relationships are free of [...]
Capitalistic Democracy
Posted in Economy, Leadership, Life, tagged Economy, Leadership on June 5, 2010 | 14 Comments »
There is a too often unchallenged assumption that seems to exist—especially among business minded people—such as that markets are the preferred mechanism for everything. Clearly, markets are not everywhere applicable, especially were equal opportunity is the intent.
When a Map becomes The Reality
Posted in Life, Progress, tagged Business of business, Critical Thinking, Economy, human spirit, Learning, Quality on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Maps are useful. We all use them as an aid in navigating, especially in life. A map need not be physical; it can be an idea, a notion, a belief, a theory or paradigm. A map is both an approximation and an abstraction of reality; it is always less than that which it re-presents.
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