by bw_admin | Apr 17, 2012 | Servant Leadership
Recently, a colleague approached me to speak to her professional association of marketers. I have a few presentations on leadership always ready to go, but as with every request, I like to get the pulse of the audience I’ll be speaking to and modify my...
by bw_admin | Apr 12, 2012 | Servant Leadership
In their groundbreaking studies about effective leadership, award-winning writers Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner found that “overall, it [honesty] emerges as the single most important ingredient in the leader-follower relationship.” If a leader’s...
by bw_admin | Apr 10, 2012 | Servant Leadership
I’ve decided to add one additional monthly email and want it to be more of a personal note than my newsletter that I send out mid-month. When talking with a close friend of mine about this, he said, “why not tell people about what God’s been doing in...
by bw_admin | Apr 3, 2012 | Servant Leadership
In her blog post titled, “Why do we find integrity so hard?” (http://lnkd.in/KKsYnW), Christine McDougall shared this formula for integrity that she pulled from Chip Conley’s book, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success:...
by bw_admin | Mar 23, 2012 | Servant Leadership
I read a lot of articles based upon the tweets of various folks I follow on Twitter and on occasion I come across one that really hits me between the eyes. The following excerpt comes from Christine McDougall’s Blog – Guinea Pig C – Why do we find...
by bw_admin | Mar 14, 2012 | Servant Leadership
I recently read a quote that said leaders give “equitable treatment for all, but don’t treat anyone the same.” That left a big impression on me and caused me to reflect if and how this showed up in my work as a leader. There is tremendous value of...
by bw_admin | Mar 9, 2012 | Servant Leadership
12 years ago, I was almost fired from my job. At that early stage of my career, I was suffering from “young person’s disease,” which symptoms include over-confidence (bordering on cocky), defensiveness and an unwillingness to admit mistakes....
by bw_admin | Feb 29, 2012 | Servant Leadership
After reading about my articles about foresight in leadership and how to apply foresight, some readers have told me that given their position in their organization, they don’t see how it applies to them. I used to feel the same way as a project manager. After...
by bw_admin | Feb 18, 2012 | Servant Leadership
The first of the three steps to having foresight asked you to really dive into the subject and learn everything there is to learn about it. Now you might feel prepared to match wits with other subject matter experts, but you are wondering how this translates into...
by bw_admin | Feb 15, 2012 | Servant Leadership
The thought of or aspiring to be visionary (a.k.a. having foresight) can be a little intimidating. To me, this used to seem more like a supernatural gift rather than a skill that I could develop. Yet while there is an aspect of “nature” over...
