An interesting quote about leadership comes from Peter Drucker: Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer…” What? Treat employees as volunteers? Why on earth would anyone do that? Since employees are paid, surely it’s easier and more convenient simply to tell them what to do, reward them if they [...]
March 19th, 2012 | Retriever | 0 comments | ContinuedFeatured Article #1
Employees Are Volunteers!
An interesting quote about leadership comes from Peter Drucker: Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer…” What? Treat employees as volunteers? Why on earth would anyone do that? Since employees are paid, surely it’s easier and more convenient simply to tell them what to do, reward them if they [...]
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Sometimes Guessing Is a Strategy!
My latest efforts on Sudoku are almost always on the more challenging puzzles — the ones labeled “Very Difficult.” I like it best when I am able to work the puzzle without putting in little numbers, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes I can’t go beyond knowing that two squares should contain either one [...]
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Thoughts on Faithfulness
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted on this blog. I’ve continued reading a number of blogs and thinking about leadership, but the “urge to post” has just not been there. Miss Brown continues to teach me things. Just the other day, her actions spurred me to think about what it means to be faithful. [...]
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10 Ways to Reward Employees
Miss Brown, the Chocolate Labrador Retreiver who is the star of the book A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, loves a good reward after she has retreived her Frisbee 20 times — and she knows employees feel the same way. After they work hard and achieve results, rewards are good. Rewards also set the tone of [...]
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I Agree!
I just read this article (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/09/why_corporate_leaders_wont_abo.html) about performance reviews that came to me in my e-mail, from the Management Craft blog. The article is from the Harvard Business Review. I absolutely agree with what it has to say. The author begins in an intriguing way: “Assume there was a corporate practice that damaged the relationship [...]
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What Do Followers Want? CASE
I decided to explore leadership videos on YouTube tonight. I looked through several: pictures of beautiful scenes with inspiring words floating in front; Al Pacino in the defense scene in Scent of a Woman; a video labeled The Funniest Leadership Video; and more. The one I decided to share is a bit dry to watch [...]
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Every Employee Deserves a Great Leader
“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, [...]
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Making Meetings Count (Leadership According to C)
My husband, whom I will call C, holds a leadership position today — and he has held similar positions during much of his career. He typically gets high ratings on his leadership skills from his supervisors and employees alike. Everyday when I ask him what he did at work today, he says, “I had a [...]
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