Leading Blog
MARCH 28, 2011
In times of change there is the tendency to either stick doggedly to what has always worked in the past or to throw it all out and start new. Neither extreme is the answer. Heritage and innovation is a tension that needs to be managed— thoughtfully. Our default thinking is to view the world in terms of what has worked before so we often fail to address the changes going on around us.
Leading Blog
MARCH 25, 2011
Apple is on a roll and we want to know how Steve Jobs does it. The Steve Jobs way is, in a word, passion. Passion drives his perseverance and momentum through setbacks. Passion obliges his attention to detail. Passion necessitates his intense focus. Passion fuels his outbursts. Passion compels him to encourage those around him. Passion urges him to compete with himself.
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Leading Blog
MARCH 21, 2011
Robert Herbold, former COO of Microsoft, says that lack of courage is what destroys companies. In example after example, what is holding companies back is consistent, courageous leadership. In What’s Holding You Back? he writes that we need gutsy leaders that “make sure that their organization has a simple, understandable, clear game plan for the future,” a culture that is “curious, even paranoid about the future, to keep people always looking for new ways to help the company grow and prosper,”
Leading Blog
MARCH 10, 2011
A society that doesn’t train their children to think critically, to be aware of those around them, and to serve, must create more rules and regulations than can be accounted for. There will never be enough rules—there are too many variables—especially when people begin to direct their creativity in dysfunctional ways. The challenge is to develop sound minds.
Leading Blog
MARCH 1, 2011
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March. Poke the Box by Seth Godin. Tell to Win : Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story by Peter Guber. Brainsteering : A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas by Kevin P. Coyne and Shawn T. Coyne. Ten Steps Ahead : What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us by Erik Calonius.
Leading Blog
MARCH 15, 2011
Erik Calonius wants to know what makes a visionary? What allows a Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Berry Gordy, John Lennon, Richard Branson and others like them, to do what they do? How do they see what the rest of us are missing? Blending cognitive psychology, neuroscience and (mostly) first-hand accounts of the visionary’s life, in Ten Steps Ahead , he builds a picture of what makes them tick.
Leading Blog
MARCH 7, 2011
Building on the ideas he first presented in Linchpin , Seth Godin is back encouraging us to start things—start a project, make a ruckus, take what feels like a risk. Poke the Box is about seeing what happens. “The box,” writes Godin, “might be a computer or it might be a market or it might be a customer or it might be your boss. It’s a puzzle, one that can be solved in only one way—by poking.
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