Tag Archives: Failure

Bouncing Back

In every defeat and in every failure are the seeds of greatness. It is less about what happens to you as a leader than what you do with what happens that matters. Great leaders are resilient and know how to adjust quickly in the face of adversity. Here are some tips for how to bounce back successfully. Continue reading

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Escalating Into Oblivion

As many of you know, my latest research interest is the intersection of leadership decision-making and outcomes for associations.  It’s my longstanding hypothesis that associations often stumble (sometimes badly) because they rarely measure and test the quality and nature of … Continue reading

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When The Levees Broke…Circa August 2005

I watched Spike Lee’s HBO documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts again for about the nine hundredth time.  The stories are powerfully haunting and heartbreaking still.  Hurricane Katrina laid bare the enormous cost and curse of poor leadership.  The lessons about democracy … Continue reading

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