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Tag Archives: Leadership
As 2010 comes to a close all means of the “Best of” lists are certain to arise in your favorite circles. Whether it’s best ice cream flavors, green idea, news stories, remixes, political figures, hospitals, celebrities, musicians, Internet trends, automobiles … Continue reading
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
Posted in Leadership
Tagged adversity, American Psychological Association, APA, conflict, Failure, fear, great leaders, Leadership, Lessons Learned, resilience, Sullenberger
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That Angry Moment.
American voters had their angry moment this week. They turned the U.S. House of Representatives over to the Republican Party. It was an object lesson in the failure of leadership. This was not a partisan moment. It was a moment of supreme despair and frustration. If the blameworthy Republicans drove the car into the ditch—as President Obama said so often on the campaign trail—it became his administration’s failure to get it out of the ditch and back on the road to jobs and a renewed sense of optimism that doomed Democrats in the mid-term elections. Continue reading
Posted in Change, Leadership
Tagged Congress, democrats, elections, Eugene Robinson, House of Representatives, Leadership, midterm, Obama, republicans, trust, US Congress, Washington Post
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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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Print Grows Trees
Print on paper gives landowners a reason to grow trees. More than half of all U.S. forestland is owned privately. Private landowners decide the fate of these forests. Many require an income from their land, and when a working forest cannot make money, the land is often put to another use. Research shows that 55 million acres of private U.S. forests will be sold or transferred in the next five years. With no financial incentive to grow trees, will these forests be converted permanently to other uses?
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Posted in Change, Ethics, Leadership, Politics
Tagged environmental stewardship, facts, forestland, Leadership, new ideas, paper, PEFC, PGAMA, print, printing, recycling, responsible forestry, SFC, SFI, sustainable forests, trees
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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
Situational Ethics. An Oxymoron for the Ages
What are the ethical obligations and responsibilities of newly elected volunteer leaders? Oftentimes, when a new chief staff executive is hired, one of the expectations (sometimes overt, often unspoken) is that they will “tighten up the ship” and clear away … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Executive Development, Governance, Leadership, Volunteers
Tagged Ethics, Leadership, volunteer leadership
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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
Leading In Uncertain Times
In the shadow of today’s economic climate it is inevitable that questions about and pressure to make sudden shifts in strategy, business plans, and direction will be brought to bear on association leaders. Rushing off in a new direction at … Continue reading
Posted in Executive Development, Governance, Leadership
Tagged association, economic downturn, game plan, General Colin Powell, leader, Leadership, mergers, strategy, vision
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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
