Adam Bryant article “Distilling the Wisdom of CEOs” extols the virtues of the book, The Corner Office. Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons From CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed.” It is clearly worth a read. Distilling the Wisdom of CEOs In my view, as differentiators of who gets to lead and who does not, the […]
Friday, March 18, 2011
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Among the financially successful business leaders with whom I work is a wide range of unhappiness or happiness. For a long time, I have explored this topic along with how they define success, their inner thoughts about life and work. Here is what emerged last evening from a conversation about this with one of my […]
Monday, March 7, 2011
Most entrepreneurs are proud of decision-making by intuition. Some are more “plan-ful” than others. It gave me to wondering how to think about this. Jonah Lehrer’s book: “How We Decide” is a great read. It reinforces the idea that intuition is often based on real data available only in our subconscious. We over-think and go […]
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Job Interview Past blogs have focused on experiences that provide insights into leadership. This one is about a job-seeker who demonstrated both being authentic and being “good on his feet (one of the archetypal shaping experiences in my book).” Interviewing for a position in an operating company with the CFO, the job-seeker knew that two […]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Friday, April 22, 2011
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