Autumn has arrived in West Michigan and the leaves are changing. It’s a sort of in-between time for fall color – no longer the lush green of summer, but not quite the brilliant color blast we’ll expect in a few weeks. As I sat on my deck this past weekend, looking at one of our…
Are Your Career Choices Courageous or Cautious?
I was talking career choices the other day with a colleague whom I’ve known for 22 years. He has worked for the same company for the past 25 years. My job history has been more fluid – the past 22 years have seen me in a combination of corporate gigs and self-employment. My friend said…
The Rewards of Leadership
Years ago I was a supervisor in a corporate Training & Development department. It wasn’t my first supervisory role, but two things made it unique from my previous management experience: I was promoted from within the department and it was my first time supervising full-time knowledge workers. Because of this dynamic, it was an exciting,…
The Great Leadership Development & Succession Planning Kit
I’ve noticed something about the blogging space – there’s a whole lot of content around general leadership and a lot less about the specifics of developing leaders in a company environment. That’s why I enjoy Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog – he blogs about the business-related tactics needed to develop leadership competency at the organizational…
7 Considerations for Launching ROWE at Your Company
Tech start up Funding Gates is completely sold on the ROWE management philosophy. I recently interviewed Funding Gates’ co-founder Ismail Cholak about leading a company using ROWE practices. I wondered: can larger companies realistically use the ROWE concepts? Ismail said that yes, even big companies like Best Buy are successfully using ROWE. As we talked,…