A Leadership Lesson from Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge offers a number of great lessons for all of us during his journey of reclamation through Christmases past, present and future in Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol. In this particular exchange with the Spirit of Christmas Past, Scrooge remembers the...

A Leader’s Reasons to be Thankful

Note from Art: This is an annual post at Management Excellence, offered in the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. It’s a nice time for leaders to pause and recognize the many reasons they have to be thankful for the privilege of serving.  A...

Best Of: A Leader’s Resolutions are Calendar Blind

This post is excerpted from my collection: Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development. As we head into the new year, it’s important to recognize that for the most effective leaders, every day is New Year’s Day. I’m as guilty as the next...

Leaders, Beware the Imposters: Triumph and Disaster

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same…” -Rudyard Kipling from “If” Triumph, that moment in time when we have vanquished our competitors or achieved a level of performance long desired, is the moment of...