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Category Archives: Servant Leadership
How Safe Is Your Organization?
In 2011 approximately 275,000 organizations automatically lost their tax-exempt status because they did not file legally required Internal Revenue Service annual reports for three consecutive years. While the IRS believes the vast majority of these organizations are defunct, a review … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Governance, Leadership, Servant Leadership, Volunteers
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Why Quick Thinking Helps You Thrive
If changing an unproductive habit, resolving a professional stumbling block or making mistakes were as simple as being aware of it, we’d all be living perfect lives. For most of us linear living is simply not possible, so we live … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Innovation, Leadership, Servant Leadership
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Why Leaders Need To Think Creatively
“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution…To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions with a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance…” – Albert Einstein Often thought to be the … Continue reading
How Are Your Poll Numbers?
The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of 1,000 adults taken between August 27-31, 2011 found that generally speaking 44% of Americans approve of the job President Obama is doing. 51% disapprove. The other 5% aren’t sure. The President’s poll … Continue reading
The Hurd Mentality
Mark Hurd lost his job as Chairman and CEO of Hewlett Packard. Why is it that CEO’s and leaders of all stripe appear to excel at self-destructive behaviors? In the last six months, US Army General Stanley McChrystal speaking out of … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Executive Development, Leadership, Servant Leadership
Tagged business, Ethics, Hewlett Packard, Leadership, Mark Hurd, morals, self-destruct, sexual harassment
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No Passion. No Progress.
It was a warm and memorable reminder of the power of passion. Having it isn’t quite enough. Continue reading
Posted in Change, Leadership, Servant Leadership, Volunteers
Tagged consistency, followers, leaders, passion, power of passion, woman leaders
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Amazing Things Will Happen.
Closing out his run on the Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien left behind some heartfelt advice to his fans. “Please don’t be cynical,” he said. “I hate cycnicism—it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life … Continue reading
Getting It Right.
What are the tough trade-offs your association never seems to get quite right? There is no shortage of ways to go wrong. If every organization exists only to serve and leaders by extension exist only to serve those who are serving others, … Continue reading
No Dues. Just The Experience.
A Contribution to Acronym’s Big Ideas theme… If your association couldn’t charge dues, would your members pay you for the experience of belonging? It’s a serious question. The dues value versus member benefit proposition has been thriving for decades. Associations have … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Ethics, Executive Development, Governance, Leadership, Politics, Servant Leadership
Tagged celebrity culture, dues, experiences, growth, Membership, People, popular culture, US In Touch E1 Network
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Mind Your p’s and q’s
My dear mother long since passed from this life used the shorthand “mind your p’s and q’s” to signal me and my siblings that we were to be on our best behavior. Who knew some forty years later, I might … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Executive Development, Leadership, Memorabilia, Servant Leadership
Tagged Beer Institute, British pubs, embossing, Gutenberg, hand type, ink, letterpress, manners, paper, printing, typesetting
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