FROM GREG’S DESK
By Topic: Leadership
Established best practices in leadership live all around us. Seeing them exemplified helps us use them.
We all choose.
We choose to declare ourselves or not. To fall in line or to step out of line. To put ourselves ‘out there’ or not. To recognize and reinforce someone else’s effort and risk, or to maintain silence. To support what we believe by what we do. To seize and expand a moment created by another. Great leaders (and great followers) maintain a vigilance about such choices.
Once again, I had the chance to attend Cape May’s now semi-annual jazz festival. This one proved smaller than many, and yet it still offered a wide range of high-quality music (can you say ‘Grammy-winning artists’?)…
Jimmy Carter died. You most likely heard. Here’s a story about Jimmy Carter that I wager you haven’t heard.
I am a born and bred Nutmegger, longtime fan of UConn’s women’s team, and father of two high school, college, and beyond female athletes/sport captains…And, I have a story with only one source and a secondhand one at that, namely another father talking about his child, in this case about a son ‘playing with girls’, but it’s a good story.
Great leaders evolve, both themselves and their leadership and they help those who choose to follow them to evolve as well, as people and as co-creators of leadership.
All of us will face moments of challenge and even crisis over the coming months. So many moments will seem small and yet they will prove definitional.
The news seems stuffed with CEOs under duress. This article of mine just appeared in Directors and Boards and uses the 'news' to highlight best practices in leadership for one and all, boards included.
There’s an awful lot of good football (as in American) getting played these days by Philadelphia’s Eagles. I’m not a leading football fan/expert, but even I can see it.
As readers of this newsletter know, I’ve written about and worked on what we now call DEI for decades….
Perhaps, like me, you’re not atop the doings of the Australian Football League. Bear with me for a moment while I give you a bit of background.
This article has a continuing relevance as we try to rebuild and renew ourselves and our organizations.
It’s July 4th and time to read again Frederick Douglass’ 4th of July speech delivered on July 5, 1852…. The lessons abound for us all in these important and trying times and especially the lessons in leadership.
A thought about current leadership and heroism on this Memorial Day, a day dedicated to those who could never return to their homes, could never take another breath and a day symbolized by the poppy, so often the first flower to regrow on battle ravaged fields and so to offer renewed evidence of life’s force.
Leadership (and life) lessons from Antarctica--i trekked in Antarctica over a New Years. The lessons have a special relevance in our world today.
A significantly good and actually very generally relevant MLB action closed out 2020. Its history has clear implications for organizational leaders concerned about positively impacting diversity, equity, and inclusion today.