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How to Develop Your Noble Obsession 5 Aug 2013 | 10:21 pm
As I noted this week in my CBS MoneyWatch blog, a key to leadership is having a “noble obsession.” While not influenced by the book of the same title about Charles Goodyear (one of the inventors of ru...
Learn Instant Rapport in 18 Minutes 8 Jul 2013 | 11:28 pm
Word mapping is one of the most valuable leadership tools I’ve ever seen. It causes people to think you read their minds, can be deeply seductive and (if you could go back in time), it can even be use...
How to Tell if You are About to Have an Impact – or if You are Just Tilting at Windmills 13 Jun 2013 | 06:26 am
How to Tell if You are About to Have an Impact – or if You are Just Tilting at Windmills. This week I walked into a restaurant in Dubuque, Iowa to meet with a visionary thinker I’d been talking to fo...
Phil Jackson and Tribal Leadership 25 May 2013 | 06:55 am
This was an amazing week for the Tribal Leadership tribe. On Saturday, one of my Executive MBA students emailed a New York Times article about Phil Jackson’s new book, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Succes...
A Cry of Hope, Serenity, and Sadness 13 May 2013 | 10:59 pm
In 2000, American Elegy was performed for the first time in commemoration of the victims and survivors of the massacre at Columbine High School. In the thirteen years since composer Frank Ticheli was ...
No “One Size Fits All” When it Comes to Values: Lessons from Ron Johnson and J.C. Penney 30 Apr 2013 | 03:18 am
Once a week or so, LinkedIn sends a list of job openings that might be a good fit. The little black box algorithm combines geography, past job history, current role, network, and the skills/expertise ...
My Accident Aftermath… and what you can learn from it 30 Apr 2013 | 01:37 am
Some of you have noticed that I’ve been off blogging for months. This post is about the grueling details of why. If you make it through, I promise this read can change the way you approach leadership....
How does Your Tribe Respond to Terror? 17 Apr 2013 | 02:35 am
This week’s blog was going to be about how to avoid getting into a values mismatch and what to do when you discover you are in one. Good stuff that we can revisit at another time. The explosions at t...
Mistakes, scandals, and atrocity 4 Apr 2013 | 12:43 am
In a recent episode of Scandal, Olivia Pope and her media relations team rush in to manage a crisis involving a CEO, her family, and the professor with whom the CEO had had an affair. The CEO’s Board ...
Does Pope Francis Need to Manage or Lead? 20 Mar 2013 | 05:25 pm
Are you a leader or a manager? Do you think that one is better than the other? Is Pope Francis a manager or a leader? In last Tuesday's Tribal Leadership Intensive, Dave Logan led a conversation on t...
