Category Archives: Characteristics

Keeping the Best Employees

By | October 16, 2013

[October 16, 2013]  Today’s business environment is changing.  Companies are struggling to meet the challenges and the opportunities of a communications-centric business environment.  This means that the way organizations are lead must keep pace, in part, by retaining their best employees. So, how do we keep the best, first-rate employees?  It is common knowledge that keeping any employee… Read More »

Characteristic #21: Dealing with Surprises

By | October 15, 2013

[October 15, 2013]  As senior executive leaders, it is important that we deal with surprises appropriately.  At the executive level we are fond of saying we don’t like surprises, simply because surprises tend to be very large and very bad. How senior leaders deal with a surprise can determine success or failure in our organizations. “What you see is… Read More »

Leader Popularity

By | October 4, 2013

[October 4, 2013] “Popularity is not leadership.”                        – Richard Marcinko, US Navy Seal, Author The saying that leaders need to be popular to get things done is a myth.  However, there is some confusion about this in the workplace and among leaders and lay people alike.  Certainly, leaders do not want people to hate them because that… Read More »

Characteristic #15: Leading Transitions (Part 1)

By | September 30, 2013

[September 30, 2013]  Organizational “transitions” are those events when an organization takes risk to change its processes.  Transitions involve major changes to the organization. Organizational transitions are either internally or externally driven, require significant resources and planning to surmount, and put the organization at some level of danger of failure.  Some organizations are in a near constant state… Read More »