by bw_admin | Nov 9, 2011 | Servant Leadership
Unless you work for a utility or oil company, energy in business is only about one thing: PEOPLE. Energy comes from mastery, empowerment, creativity, teamwork, love, empathy and acknowledgement. Money may also show up on this list somewhere, but it certainly...
by bw_admin | Nov 1, 2011 | Servant Leadership
In a recent conversation about his business, someone said to me that, “my purpose is to sell my business for a profit in 10 years.” Nothing wrong with that, yet through our conversation his REAL purpose was revealed. What he really loves, he said, is...
by bw_admin | Oct 25, 2011 | Servant Leadership
When in Salt Lake City, Utah recently for a football game, what struck me about the Mormon culture is how deeply their values are ingrained into everything they do. Everywhere we went in Salt Lake City, we saw evidence of the shared values that have been part of the...
by bw_admin | Oct 11, 2011 | Servant Leadership
Institutions and organizations are how and where things get done in the world today. Amazing when you consider that less than a hundred years ago there were only a few corporations in existence and they were mostly utilities or railroads. Since then, we’ve seen...
by bw_admin | Oct 4, 2011 | Servant Leadership
The power of play has been central to child development for centuries, but somehow, like the other childhood skills I shared in this series, play has fallen to the wayside in our adult world. That’s a real shame, given that nearly 75% of workers today are...
by bw_admin | Sep 27, 2011 | Servant Leadership
People have a natural desire to know more. You can hear it in the constant questioning of young children. Early learning begins with wonder, which turns to curiosity, inquiry and then knowledge, which yields an ever-deeper wonder. The people who designed the Boston...
by bw_admin | Sep 16, 2011 | Servant Leadership
While reading Robert Greenleaf’s ground-breaking work about servant leadership, I was inspired by the image of a workplace where the trustees were servants to the employees; where the CEO is primus inter pares – first among equals. And I also immediately...
by bw_admin | Sep 13, 2011 | Servant Leadership
Throughout the Boston Children’s Museum are “exhibits” that challenge the children (and adults) to first and foremost just notice – the big hula-hoop that produced even bigger bubbles, the mini-roller coaster where golf balls were propelled up,...
by bw_admin | Aug 25, 2011 | Servant Leadership
Inspiration can come from anywhere. I just returned from a short vacation to Boston and southern Maine with the family and had to share a jolt of inspiration from the Boston’s Children’s Museum. (First, a shameless plug for the museum. It was an awesome...
by bw_admin | Aug 16, 2011 | Servant Leadership
What really (I mean REALLY) gets you fired up every day? Is it that little victory with your staff where they finally “got it”? Is it closing that deal or delivering on time to one of your most difficult customers? For all of us, we have those “fist...
