Mark is featured as this month’s Thought Leader in his article titled, Why Leaders Fail, published in Maximum Impact’s premier leadership newsletter, Leadership Wired. You can read Mark’s insights as to why leaders fail, the lessons they must learn from failure and how they can prevent it by accessing the online edition of Leadership Wired.
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Critical lessons all leaders need to know.
Good leaders make us mad. Bad leaders make us mad, too. What’s the difference? A bad leader makes us made at him or her. We get mad about how they treat us, questionable ethics, bullheadedness, going the wrong direction and a plethora of other reasons. They make us mad because they aren’t good leaders. Good…
You’ve heard that phrase many times. I think I first ran across it in a book by Bennis and Nanus (how’s that for two great names for co-authors?). Not only does familiarity breed contempt; it can also breed neglect. Sometimes we discount the value of an idea because it is familiar. Andrew Carnegie said, “Reading…
Tom Gray works with us on using technology strategically. We are often approached by individuals and companies that have a “new idea.” More often than not, they are using new technology in old ways. These new ideas turn out, at best, to be incremental improvements. “If I was in high school or college right now,…
Is it possible too read too much? Yes, if reading prevents you from thinking. Passive reading can be a substitute for the harder work of thinking and learning. We fool ourselves if we think a large input of ideas will necessarily benefit us. Until we digest those ideas and ultimately apply them, then reading is…
Thoureau said “Don’t read the Times; read the eternities.” He knew the value of timeless truths. (And I recognize the phrase “timeless truths” is redundant–all truths are timeless, but we need to be remnded of that sometimes). Circumstances change but truths endure. In an age of management philosophy du jour, make sure the underlying principles of…