As I sit down to write this new blog post, I feel the fluttering start. Nervousness? Fear? Excitement? Resistance? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The term “I’ve got butterflies in my stomach” has endured through the ages because it is so highly descriptive of that sensation. You know the one…it often starts as jitters in your stomach. [Click title to read more.]
Where Did You Leave YOUR Leader Ladder?
Sometimes the simplest things can make me laugh. What I love best, though, is when something makes me laugh AND think! Here’s one that happened right outside my window. Leadership Lessons from Encounters with a Squirrel My office has a second story view looking out into our back woods. We love feeding and watching the […]
Leadership Ecosystems
In a recent article, I offered the metaphor of leadership as a kind of gardening, asking you to consider the conditions leaders endure and create as if it were a flower garden. Real leaders fertilize and cultivate everything within their reach, whether with a smile of acknowledgment to an associate in another division, a deserved […]
Real Leaders Fertilize
Bloom Where You’re Planted A primary rule of biology is that if a thing can grow/live, it will. Witness these brave poppy flowers, not just growing, but blooming. There between the railroad ties, amongst rocks and rubble, regularly being run over by train cars, never getting regular watering, yet they hang on! True to their […]