“Every employee deserves a great leader.” This phrase caught my eye today when I thumbed through my mail. It was on the cover of a magazine I receive from my undergraduate alma mater. The article the headline led me to was about a guy named Stephen Mansfield, the president and CEO of Methodist Health System, [...]

Not long ago, I heard T. Boone Pickens say that Obama should “step up and lead” regarding energy independence for America. According to Pickens, Americans have many sources of alternative energy to choose from: solar, wind, propane, natural gas, ethanol made from algae or switchgrass, geothermal, electricity, and more. If Obama were to call on [...]

I just joined a leadership community, MOR, which stands for “Maximizing Organizational Resources.” I checked out a blog entry entitled “It’s the Little  Things that Have an Impact.” Here the link to that blog entry, written by Neptali. His “little thing” was a statement he heard at a leadership session he attended: “You can be [...]

I watched Michael Blomberg, the mayor of New York, on Morning Joe this morning, while pedaling my exercise bike.  I saw good leadership and excellent people skills in action. The news people at the table praised Blomberg to the skies for managing New York effectively in a trying economic/cultural time. He would have none of [...]

I read this quote in a Yammer post today: “Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal.” The quote is from Howard Gardner, Harvard University. I had a history professor once, many years ago, who made history come alive for me for the first time in my life. How did he do [...]