Frances Hesselbein, Hesselbein on Leadership (pp 13-17.). Jossey-Bass, 2002 CHAPTER 2 A Reason to Believe I SPOKE RECENTLY to an audience of university students, faculty, and community leaders. We had a vigorous question and answer period, and when people came … Read More
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Hesselbein: Leadership Is a Matter of How to Be, not How to Do
Hesselbein, Frances; Goldsmith, Marshall; McArthur, Sarah. Work is Love Made Visible (Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum) (pp. 6-7). Wiley. Leadership Is a Matter of How to Be, not How to Do When I was the CEO of the Girl Scouts of … Read More
Multitasking
You think you are a great multitasker? You are not. Nobody is. MS Teams is a fantastic tool in business. It not only connects the work community with each other, it offers meeting, chat, call, collaborating options by file sharing … Read More
Petty Tyrants and Psychopaths
Klaas, Brian. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us (p. 108). John Murray Press. Kindle Edition. Why overconfidence and arrogance are common traits in powerful people? Machiavellianism comes from the reductive caricature of a single idea from Italian … Read More
Business: Mindset and Leadership
Notes and highlights for Carol Dweck. Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential (Kindle Locations 1816-1817). Hachette UK. Kindle Edition. Chapter 5. BUSINESS: MINDSET AND LEADERSHIP CEO Disease CEOs face this choice all the … Read More
Don’t Be a Mediator
Diviney, Rich. The Attributes, Ebury Edge 2021, pp. 189-196 Chapter 21 DON’T BE A MEDIATOR Accountability: Taking responsibility for, and ownership of, your decisions, actions, and the consequences thereof NAVY SEAL TEAMS, LIKE any military outfit, have both officers and … Read More
Bullies in the Workplace
Bullies in the Workplace I have recently been told several stories, where those in position have been freely bullying their team members. Some of the examples: A friend of mine switched jobs with great expectations, moving to work for a … Read More
Can Your Boss Actually be a Psycopath?
Can Your Boss Actually be a Psycopath? A student raised the following question during one of my classes: what is the reason for the phenomenon that emotional intelligence grows with rank up to mid-manager level, then it goes free fall, … Read More