Management Week in Review-January 7, 2011

One of my professional goals this year is to do a better job sharing insights and perspectives from a broad range of great leadership and management writers and thinkers. Every Friday, I will share my three favorites for the week. This week, I'm including content on transforming yourself, testing your strategy and turning some of the disasters of 2010 into great lessons for 2011. Enjoy!

By |2016-10-22T17:11:44-05:00January 7th, 2011|Strategy|4 Comments

Two Great Blogs and a Best of Leadership Caffeine™ post

Note from Art: I'm taking a few days off over the holidays to focus on family and recharge my writing batteries. I plan on completing the second round edits of my next book, aptly titled, Leadership Caffeine, and I'm preparing a few other blogging surprises for the new year. However, if you happen to be hungry for stimulating content, here are a few suggestions to help you through this typically quiet week. Enjoy!

By |2016-10-22T17:11:44-05:00December 27th, 2010|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|3 Comments

Two Voices-Humility and the Effective Leader

One of the true joys of my blogging experience comes from meeting and collaborating with some remarkable people. Mary Jo Asmus is one of those remarkable people. We collaborated a few months ago on Two Voices on: The Words of a Leader, and enjoyed the experience and the reactions so much that we vowed to do it again. Well, we're back. Mary Jo reached out to me a few weeks ago and raised the topic of "Humility and the Leader," and we were both so interested in exploring this issue that we went off to our separate corners and the output is reflected in the two posts below. While the posts don't necessarily reflect a point-counterpoint perspective, they do bring two unique perspectives to what turned out to be a challenging issue.

By |2016-10-22T17:12:01-05:00October 28th, 2009|Career, Leadership|11 Comments

Guest Post-More Leadership Lessons Learned the Wrong Way

Note from Art: It's always fun when a post strikes a chord and compels someone to comment or even put hands to keyboard and crank out a guest post. Last week's "Leadership Lessons Learned In a Crane and Sitting on a 5 Gallon Pail" drew upon some of my own early career memories and the formative lessons learned the hard way and served as inspiration for some interesting comments and today's guest post. Joe Zurawski is back with us today serving up a nice post on one of the early career experiences that shaped his own leadership development. You may recall that Joe joined us here a few months ago with his take on "Things I Wish I Knew When I Became a Leader." Joe, welcome back and thanks for sharing!

By |2016-10-22T17:12:01-05:00October 6th, 2009|Career, Leadership|10 Comments

Guest Post-A Fresh Voice on Developing Executive Presence

Note from Art: Today's post is from Jeff Hornstein, a Speaking Coach and someone passionate about helping individuals and teams develop their critical presentation skills. I invited Jeff to share his thoughts and ideas on "Executive Presence" and he was kind enough to contribute this post and his wonderfully useful pdf guidebook, "Communicating Credibility."

By |2016-10-22T17:12:02-05:00September 23rd, 2009|Career, Leadership|3 Comments

A Fresh Voice and Leadership and the Art of Apology

There’s an excellent post entitled, “Sorry is not the final word, just the beginning,” by guest author and Product/Project Management Consultant, Lisa Winter at one of my favorite blogs: The Art of Project Management. hosted by the UCSC-Extension in Silicon Valley. Ms. Winter describes a situation where she inadvertently upset a valuable but delicate team member on a conference call, and then went to significant lengths to apologize and regain his support. In addition to the happy ending, this fine post prompted some thoughts on a topic that I confess I’ve not spent a lot of time thinking about: the role of the apology as a leadership tool. I can’t help but feel a little guilty that I’ve not raised this topic in the past, and for that, I apologize...(OK, I had to work it in somewhere!).

Fresh Voices in Management Excellence: Greg Strouse and His Stories, Advice and Opinions on Working, Managing and Surviving the Corporate World

Searching through the sea of business and leadership blogs has become a bit like a treasure hunt. I enjoy searching for great voices that have not yet jumped out of the search engines and on to everyone’s screen. ne of those that deserves to be front and center is Greg Strouse’s Tales from an XOD, Stories, Advice and Opinions on Working, Managing and Surviving the Corporate World.

By |2016-10-22T17:12:08-05:00June 2nd, 2009|Leadership, Strategy|1 Comment

Fresh Voices: Perspectives on Change, Communication and Delegation

One of my favorite outcomes of blogging has been the opportunity to meet and learn from some really sharp people that share a passion for many of the same topics that I write about: leadership excellence, high performance and personal and professional development. Consistent with my desire to hunt for great new books, I've been seeking out new (to me) writers on topics that are relevant to anyone engaged in working with and leading others or focused on developing themselves. I plan on sharing these posts and authors with you from time to time, just like I would a great new book or a newly discovered writer. This week's posts and authors include...

By |2016-10-22T17:12:09-05:00May 12th, 2009|Career, Leadership, Leading Change|5 Comments
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