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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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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 [...]

30Jul2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Cheers for Blomberg!

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 [...]

19Apr2010 | 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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Are You a Good Boss?

This article from CNN Careers (which came to me via Twitter) describes what lots of people think makes a good boss. Not surprisingly, some of the most valued qualities show up as actions: Showing respect Being available for consultation Offering constructive criticism (in a kind way) Making suggestions Being flexible Keeping employees informed Being available [...]

10Feb2010 | 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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Three Star Leadership Blog Has It Right

Wally Bock, author of one of my favorite blogs, Three Star Leadership, says in a recent post entitled “Caring for Your People: Part of the Boss’s Job,” that leaders have two jobs: one is to accomplish the mission; the other is to care for your people. Caring for people, he says, involves three main things: [...]

9Aug2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued
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Tie Expectations to Goals

In the “People Skills” portion of her book, A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, Miss Brown’s third common sense principle is “Make your expectations clear.” She chose to put this principal at the top of her list because so often, employees are NOT clear on what is expected of them, or the expectations are not grounded [...]

1Aug2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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