Today’s post will be published: tomorrow! In the meanwhile, please see these excellent resources: An interesting WSJ column on what may be behind the drive to refine the GDP as a standard of national well-being. A terrific article on why smart executives can make dumb decisions – hat tip to Michael Wade, the Execupundit. A [...]
We often think that the best managers – or, especially, “leaders” – connect on a deep and profound level with their employees, establishing a mutual understanding and commitment to each other. The sad reality, though, as mentioned yesterday, is that most of us lack the perspective, maturity, and discipline to pull it off. That may seem a harsh claim to make, but if we . . .
One of the key problems with the notion of exceptional individual leadership is that it is inwardly focused. It is all about the individual, and the electric impression he or she is supposed to make on “followers” at all levels. Only then, if at all, does the subject turn . . .
We want to make an end to strife, to balance the warring factions of our lives, of the demands they make of us, and we of them. Just some peace and quiet, please, for once. Why is that so difficult, so fraught with fruitless struggle and seemingly endless failure? Well, one reason is . . .
Most discussions about reconciling one’s person with one’s work – particularly when we wake up one day to find that we’ve been, for decades perhaps, neglecting that little point – tend to start with a reexamination of who we are. What kind of a person are we, or do we want to be, we ask ourselves. As we look back across those unexamined years, can we discern a plot struggling to leave its mark in the otherwise featureless terrain, a trajectory to our lives? What kind of story does it tell? This isn’t necessarily mid-life crisis stuff. Indeed, many of our younger colleagues . . .
When we consider the question of how to manage others, we typically picture those others as more or less blank slates upon which we can write our magic stories. Or, at least, we imagine them to be fellow travelers, but with no baggage – nothing to disturb the expression or question the validity of the model of management we are being taught to apply with (or on) them. . .
Behind many of the current political disputes in the US lately is the question of justice. It is remarkable – isn’t it? – how stridently partisans can depict versions of it that may be mutually comprehensible, but that are decidedly not mutually reconcilable. For our purposes, let’s look at it this way . . .
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