Posted in Leadership on December 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I have been having some trouble with noises from the right front of my car. Several mechanics looked into it and none of them could come up with a diagnosis. The best guess seemed to be the right front strut. Putting all the pieces together I concluded that hitting a speed bump at 25 MPH […]
Posted in Current Events, Leadership on November 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The complexity of our current economic crisis is really quite simple from a values point of view: people got greedy. Take a look at this description of weakness from Spiral Dynamics. ORANGE is the vMEME that “calculates the actions that will maximize his or her own advantages and leverage competitive opportunities.”
The pitfall of ORANGE is […]
Posted in Leadership on November 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I have read a lot of leadership books lately that focus on leadership behaviors. I always walk away with an uneasy feeling that they are all dancing around the problem, only addressing surface issues. “Heroic Leadership” takes a different approach that resonates more with my experience:
…a leader’s most compelling leadership tool is who he or […]