We leadership bloggers love to talk about trust and transparency. Karin Hurt of the Let’s Grow Leaders blog has selected these intertwining topics to feature for her May Frontline Festival. It’s a fantastic compilation from over twenty active leadership bloggers. Topics include trusting your team, trusting yourself (HUGELY important, and often overlooked), how to building…
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Daily Ways to be a Mannerly Manager
Emily Post, considered by many to have helped shaped societal etiquette norms in the latter half of the 20th century, once said: “Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.” I love the link between “manners” and “honor”! Here’s…
Leaders Open Doors – Simple, Yet Profound
Leaders Open Doors is a quick read, but one that will definitely stir your thinking. See the three reasons why I think you’ll want to put this book into your business library: Drat You Tube! No, I don’t sing the book review, this is just the dorky screen shot that uploaded. Other business…
Is Leadership Transparency Always the Best Policy?
I had a great exchange of ideas with Terry of the Wise Leaders blog about trust as a renewable resource. During our exchange, Terry shared this intriguing thought about the connection between trust and consistency in the leader-follower relationship: To build trust, followers look to their leader to be consistent [. . .] followers like…
Organizational Transformation – Key Learning from Executives
This is part three of a series of discussions with Marilyn Jacobson, Ph.D, author of: Turning the Pyramid Upside Down: A New Leadership Model. To see the previous two posts, you can check out Turning the Hierarchy Upside Down and A Shift in Leadership Thinking. For this third and final part of the series, Dr….