“Leadership isn’t for everyone,” asserts Tacy Byham (1). Before you take on a leadership assignment, he says, answer these ten questions, and if you answer “no” to too many, don’t lead. The questions center around “why lead?”, as well as “people skills”, ability to learn, and flexibility.
All good questions.
But each of us engage in leadership activities all the time: influencing others to move in a given direction and/or supporting them to get there. We often lead without even…..
Because I Said So: Lessons in Parenting and Change Management http://www.bain.com/publications/articles/because-i-said-so.aspx
In a dark, musty cave on top of an Alaskan snow-swept mountain, seven Curtain men knelt to pray.
“Brothers,” Sampson said in an urgent voice after prayers ended. “We have suffered here for far too long. It’s time to begin to reclaim our former glory.”
“Amen,” chorused the rest of the group.
The descent into ignominy was achingly familiar. The near-death shooting of that martyred Congressman Steve Scalise 50 years earlier was the start of the second United States Civil…..
A job strategy guaranteed to fail — except when it succeeds.
My relationship with the Beatles got off on the wrong foot when a relative living in Great Britain sent me the album “Rubber Soul” as a Christmas present. As an eight-year-old kid, I had no opinion about the band, except vague annoyance that screeching girls often made it hard to hear their songs. Since classical music was the primary music heard around our house, I thought that it was politically incorrect to like the Beatles.
“I hate the Beatles!” I…..
“Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye.”
Thus chorused some Congressional Democrats after the American Health Care Act (AHCA) narrowly passed.
Another disconnect between the high and mighty and the rest of us, for this “Na Na na” chant became irrelevant at least ten years ago, and back then, it was used only when victory was assured.
Sad.
Shortly afterwards, a group of old white male Republican Congress members joined with President Trump and others…..