I don’t know where this quotation originates; it is on a card provided by a packaging company without attribution. I love it anyway though. Of course, leadership is more than just an action, it is action from a new view of the world, not the same old actions we’ve always taken. To me, that is the very essence of leadership – finding a way to have the world occur differently to yourself and others and then taking actions to reach that new view, the new vision and mission.
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Leadership, Management, Politics
WARNING: Geek-speak is about to happen in this blog and it’s not really about leadership (at least not directly). I think this is more about catharsis than it is about anything else, yet some of you may be amused by the trials and tribulations of a died-in-the-wool technologist, suffering at the hands of technology.
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Growing Edges, Opinion, Technology, Time Management
Leaders don’t fall in love with their own ideas. They do fall in love with the vision, the noble goal of the organization, but they don’t cling to their own “great ideas.” And they don’t let you fall in love with your ideas either. Why? Because when you are so committed to an idea, or view, or opinion, you aren’t open to the way things can be. It’s hard, maybe impossible to see new possibilities.
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ideas, Innovation, Leadership, Management, opinions
There are many different ways of stating the premise that if you overuse a particular strength, it is soon seen by others as a fault, a weakness. My favorite way of saying it is that “your strength will become your weakness.” The point is that if you fully and only play to your strength, your strong suite, that it becomes tiresome to people, or out-dated, a solution that is no longer required. We become obsolete.
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Change, Leadership, Management, Organizational Development
