Failure to Change
“When you’re finished changing; you’re finished.” — Benjamin Franklin
Andrew Grove, former Intel Chairman and CEO and 1997 Time ”Man of the Year”, observed: “There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next performance level. Miss the ... Read More »
Trust and Teamwork
“Trust is like the air we breathe. When it’s present, nobody really notices. But when it’s absent, everybody notices.” – Warren Buffet
Patrick Lencioni writes in best-seller, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: “In the context of building a team, trust is the confidence among team members that their peers’ ... Read More »
Fox vs. Hedgehog
“Management is about coping with complexity. Leadership, by contrast, is coping with change. More change demands more leadership.” — John Kotter
In 1953, Isaiah Berlin wrote a famous essay, “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” (taken from an ancient Greek parable) that observed: “The fox knows many things, but ... Read More »
Conquering Fear
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” — Mark Twain
Leadership trainer and author, Dale Carnegie, writes: “Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. If ... Read More »
The Leadership Myth
“I would say that most leaders are made.” — General D. Eisenhower
Harvard leadership guru, Warren Bennis, writes: “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities ... Read More »