All Posts Tagged With: "Leadership"

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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 [...]

11Aug2010 | 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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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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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. Today, I am going to ask him a few questions about leadership and report what he [...]

30Jun2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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Right? Or In Relationship?

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 [...]

11May2010 | 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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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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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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Is “Strong” the Opposite of “Rude”?

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”  Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author. He is famous for motivational audio programs [...]

17Mar2010 | Jo Ellen Roe | 0 comments | Continued
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