Month: October 2010
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Leadership is not a one man job
“…There is no such thing as the perfect leader… In any great leadership team you find at least four personalities, and you never find all four in a single person… You need a strategist or visionary, who sets the goals for where the organization needs to go… You have to have the classic manager –…
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Celebrating Slow Moving Goals
Slow moving goals are hard to celebrate. It’s easy for a small store to add up the cash at the end of the day and see how much money they made. When you’re selling to other businesses and the process takes a long time, it’s easy to lose perspective and miss the opportunity to see…
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Self Fulfilling Prophesies
There was a group strategy meeting in California that I was planning to go to. Assuming things went well, I knew this would be my final business trip for my current employer. The new company was finishing fundraising so leaving was still over a month away. I still cared very much about seeing this company…
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Creating Art at Work
We are all artists. Or rather, we should be. What we pour into our work determines whether we are simply looking to get paid or are making art. I’ve long thought that the best way to grow is to look for tasks not being done and do them – to pour myself into the enterprise…
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The Unasked Questions
The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. – Proverbs 20:5 (NIV) Recently, I’ve been working on improving my attention management. My friend, David Delp, has been teaching me his system called “Designing a Balanced Life“. It’s true his approach is great, but one of the…