A recent interview with Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and C.E.O. of Care.com, highlighted the importance that self-leadership and productive relationships are to effective leadership.
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Hidden Lessons in Leadership #13
Posted in Leadership, partnership, Relationships, tagged Development of Self, Leadership, partnership, relationships on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #12
Posted in Leadership, partnership, Progress, tagged Decision-making, Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, relationships on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A New York Times interview with Aaron Levie, co-founder and C.E.O of Box.net, reveals the importance of fostering a sense-of-mission to maintaining a viable enterprise and of leading by developing partnerships with employees. In regard to the first point Aaron said, “everyone has a start-up mentality…so everyone feels really a part of what we’re doing…everyone [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #10
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, Problem Solving, Statistical Thinking, Systems Thinking on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In saying, “I believe that it is not about me…it’s very much about the team”, Linda Heasley, President and CEO of The Limited, concisely expresses her philosophy of leadership. Underlying this position on leadership is the fact that leadership involves We and not Me.
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #9
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Development of Self, Leadership, Learning, management, partnership, relationships on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Leadership…Who Cares
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Business of business, Development of Self, human spirit, Leadership, management, partnership, relationships on May 23, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Given the prevalence of a results oriented focus, leadership development is very often means leadership skill development for results. The premise is that an individual could get results—the measure of effective leadership—if he/she just acquired the right skills. This operative paradigm casts a leader as a skillful mechanic of the business machine, that if equipped [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #6
Posted in Leadership, partnership, Systems Thinking, tagged human spirit, Leadership, Learning, management, relationships, Systems Thinking on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In a May 7, 2010 New York Times Corner Office interview with Sharon Napier, CEO Partners + Napier, Sharon explains how athletics, specifically basketball, is her source for principles to manage/lead by. A key principle for Sharon is that every person on the team has a role to play. While most would agree with this, [...]
Time is More than Money
Posted in partnership, Progress, Quality, tagged Business of business, Development of Self, human spirit, partnership on May 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Would you invest your money with an institution/organization that didn’t recognize the value of your deposit and that didn’t enable it to synergize with that of other depositors? Of course you wouldn’t! Why? Likely you expect to have returned what you’ve put in plus interest. In fact, you would probably choose that institution/organization that provided [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #5
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Critical Thinking, Development of Self, Leadership, partnership, relationships on May 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A recent New York Times interview with Rachel Ashwell, founder of Shabby Chic, reveals an orientation and practice that reflects often overlooked qualities and expectations of leadership. First and foremost quality is being human. Oh many might say, aren’t we all human! Would this not mean that everyone provides leadership?
People Centered Management
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged human spirit, Leadership, management, partnership, relationships on April 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Each year the Top 100 Best Places to Work is generated by the Great Place to Work Institute and published by Fortune magazine. Although there is an element of self-selection and rankings disregard the distribution of this index across companies, the list of companies do present a group of companies with a discernable difference. This [...]
Hidden Lessons in Leadership #4
Posted in Leadership, partnership, tagged Leadership, partnership, relationships on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kip Tindell, Container Store CEO, shares important fundamentals of leadership in a New York Times Corner Office interview. At base Kip’s underlying belief about the business of business is not the usual it’s nothing personal it’s just business but rather to the contrary, business is very personal. The foundational principles of the Container Store reflect [...]
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