Principles

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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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Another List for Leaders

I came across a great list to think about based on getting employees to trust you. Trust, says list author, Gregory P. Smith, CEO of Chart Your Course International, “is a key factor for effective leadership.” The problem, he goes on to explain, is that today, you can’t ask people to trust you and expect [...]

4Nov2009 | 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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My Own Small Tribute to Ted Kennedy

Well, the last of the Kennedy brothers is now gone. That big smile, that stentorian voice, that wonderful people-oriented mindset … all gone now. We’ll miss him more that we yet realize, because his footprint is in more places that we can yet understand. I hope that a health care bill can pass. I am [...]

28Aug2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | 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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Twitter Adds Value

Twitter is pretty cool when people send out cool links. Like everyone that makes fun of Twitter, I don’t care to know when someone I follow is brushing his or her teeth, but I am interested in the links people send out that I might never see otherwise. I got one today, from executive coach [...]

12Jun2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Flexibility is a Principled Stand

Everett Dirksen, a former senator, once said, “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” Miss Brown and I like this quote because it’s a statement about principles — which we believe in, as our book, A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, makes clear.  [...]

13May2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Obama Is a Strong Leader, or So It Seems Now

All this talk of torture in recent news stories, with people justifying awful things and even joking about them,  is appalling — yet it causes me to think about leadership. It causes me to have many questions, such as these: Hasn’t history proven over and over again that bad things tend to happen under weak [...]

27Apr2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Teachers and Bosses Have the Same Job

I have three daughters, but today, I want to write about the two youngest.  One is ready to graduate from nursing school as a strong student; the other, an elementary education student, was recently selected for an education association leadership position.  To me, these young women are flowers blooming.  It’s such a pleasure for me, [...]

20Apr2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued
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Fish Remembered

My daughter is doing a short paper for her nursing class on the little leadership book entitled Fish.  I read the book years ago.  It’s a short, easy read (not quite as short as A Dog’s Advice to Leaders, but almost!), and it offers some really good advice to a leader. The book is based [...]

17Apr2009 | Jo Ellen Roe | 1 comment | Continued
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