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I always try to go hard on the issue and soft on the person. ~ Henry Cloud This is so true. I think as a leader it is critical to give people an opportunity to grow and change, feel corrected but valued, but not be negligent with what is happening if something really is an [...]

This one starts off funny but not filling, but once he gets into the meat of this probably 5 minutes in or so, he has some fantastic thoughts on education to note. He points out some key things about how educational models need to move from modeling after the industrial model(factories and fast food) to [...]

I love playing with ideas. I’m definitely an idea guy. Unfortunately, though many of them do, many of them also don’t tend to ever see the light of day. I was reading Jason Curlee’s blog and saw this post recently talking about the book Genius Machine. Here’s quoting his analysis of it. Ideas enter the [...]

When I listened to a copy of his speech I liked it, but the pace was painfully slow. Can’t blame the guy, I’m sure he was very old by this point and had been through much. I kept thinking, it would almost be better to just read his speech, so here you go, I’m going [...]

“One of the outstanding ironies of history is the utter disregard of ranks and titles in the final judgements men pass on each other. The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality [...]

Heard a great leadership quote today. “Leaders can fail all on their own but can only succeed with the entire team.”

Thoughts and summaries from Harvard Business IdeaCast 102: What Kind of a Leader Will You Be? Questions to ask yourself as a leader: Leaders are recruiters. You need to know how to find good people and build strong teams. You need to understand what the team needs to accomplish and which players are needed to [...]

So I’ve recently been thinking about reproof when in leadership. As a leader, sometimes there are things that you see going on that you don’t like that need to be handled. The question is how, as a leader, do you handle the situation? Some will “put them in their place” with some verbal lashings. Others [...]

Stephen Covey brings up a really interesting point in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. He talks about how he studied over the 200 or so years of our US history and found that there was a pattern in the literature written about the topic of success. Over the last 50 years or so, [...]

I’ll flesh this out some more maybe later this evening, but I wanted to put down that it is good to sometimes sit down, hopefully at least once a year and figure out some of the “ends” that you are trying to get to and then work backwords. If there is one thing I’ve learned [...]