React with Courage to the Unexpected My employer had just undergone a rightsizing effort to optimize our workforce and strengthen our financial situation. A result of this was that I now had two departments to manage instead of one. I also had twice the staff. I embraced this challenge with enthusiasm, implementing changes to merge […]
The Unexpected Can Be a Gift and We Shouldn’t Squander It My employer once tasked me with turning around an unprofitable subsidiary of the company. Two people preceded me in this effort and failed. I suspect, however, that they were unprepared to deal with the momentous task in front of them. Overwhelmed, they didn’t know […]
Followers Must Be Willing and Able I once volunteered for a local parachurch organization. They addressed an unmet need in our area, and I relished the chance to give back to my community. It wasn’t long before the executive director asked me to join the board of directors. I jumped at the opportunity, but what […]
Lead with Effectiveness and Manage with Success Leadership is the ability to cast a vision and draw others to you in a collective pursuit of that vision. The mark of leadership, therefore, is if you have followers. And the mark of great leadership is if you have committed followers. Conversely, someone with no followers is […]
Lead with Integrity and Manage with Confidence Transform your leadership. Transform your business. It’s time to step up and become the kind of leader your business needs … the kind of leader you were destined to become. In Sticky Leadership and Management, Peter Lyle DeHaan, PhD breaks down what it means to lead with integrity, […]