Let’s start with the obvious: if you don’t have the trust of the people you’re leading, you will fail as a leader. Without trust, people can’t put stock in your vision, won’t commit themselves to your directives, and will lose confidence in you. If people can’t trust...
Baseball spring training season is marked with a series of practices and exhibition games to prepare new and old players alike for the coming official season. This year’s Pittsburgh Pirates spring training at Pirate City in Bradenton, Florida also included leadership...
I’m a practitioner of organizational development. OD, as it’s called, is the field of practice that primarily focuses on changing people, processes, and structures to help bring about performance improvement. Because OD folks are always striving to help organizations...
Last week, Bill Treasurer gave a keynote address to 300 employees of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He spoke about the importance of leaders as opportunity creators based on concepts from his bestselling book, Leaders Open Doors. Some highlights...
I'm honored to share this blog post by Jim Blasingame. I've known Jim for almost a decade now. He produces and hosts a radio show called
Henry David Thoreau, who after spending a year and a half in quiet solitude at Walden Pond certainly earned the right to expound on silence, talks about the necessity to shake off the village as a means of connecting to your inner wisdom. Thoreau also underscored the...
Risk-taking is critical to business success. But the starting point for taking smart risks should be in action, not action. Come on, you might be thinking, let’s fast‐forward to where the action is. Risk‐taking is James Bond throttling a motorcycle off a cliff and...
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