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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, [...]

3Aug2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Solar, Anyone?

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 [...]

29Jul2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Another Sudoku Insight

I am almost done with my latest Sudoku book. I have two “Beware, Very Challenging” puzzles left, and I’ve left them until I finish all the easy puzzles that I skipped earlier. One of the easy puzzles didn’t seem so easy. It actually required me to put little numbers in squares, which most of the [...]

4May2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama a Weak Leader? No Way!

As you surely know, the Health Care Bill became law today. Obama led us to this point, and we have arrived. No, it’s not a perfect bill — but we don’t need a perfect bill. We need a foundation upon which to build — and now we have that. As a person who has had [...]

23Mar2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Becoming a Storyteller

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 [...]

22Mar2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Hatching Is Hard Work

I just read a lovely little story about a baby chick hatching, comparing it to “becoming” in humans, from Twitter. The story came from the Mountain State University School of Leadership and Professional Development. The story includes a short video of a chick hatching — fascinating to watch. Check it out here: http://leadertalk.mountainstate.edu/2009/12/becoming.html I especially [...]

30Dec2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued
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Welcome, Charlie!

Today I want to write about leadership in an entirely different context — the world of the family, and the bigger social picture families are part of. My middle daughter and her husband are leaders in this world, for sure. Here’s why: they have recently adopted a baby who happens to be an African-American. Charlie [...]

29Nov2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Alan Mulally: a Leader to Admire

I really admire Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford. He has brought Ford from the brink of destruction — and he did it without taking money from the government. I’m noticing more and more Fords on the road these days, and I kind of want one myself. So how did Mulally do it? The article [...]

17Sep2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Here’s to the Round Pegs in Square Holes

A little unsure about what to write about tonight, I decided to check out YouTube. I went there and typed in the key word “leadership”  — and a whole slew of videos came up. I started watching two of them, but both were too long and didn’t resonate. But this one did: You need to [...]

13Sep2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued