We love our staff. Seriously. Love them. That means that we empower them to take risks, catch them when they are falling, cover them when family needs to come first, push them to overcome their own inhibitions, and celebrate with them when they create greatness. Corey Michael Blake, in Forbes
What motivates leaders to open doors for others?
In an earlier post this week, I stated that we don’t do it out of chivalry — because creating opportunities for others is nice, or polite, or heroic. I »
It’s a standard some women use to judge the success of a date: did he open doors?
I spoke to a friend recently as she recounted a first date. He was wonderful, she said. Did everything right: brought roses, opened doors.
When a man opens doors on a date, we call it chivalrous, polite, or perhaps old-fashioned. We love it!
As leaders, we may get an idea that opening doors for others — creating opportunities for them — is similar: optional, recommended, nice.
But as leaders who open doors for others, we are not being chivalrous or kind, although some people might »
As the business has developed, I've been undergoing a transition from doing the work to selling, planning, and managing the work. What I do on a daily basis now is completely different from what I did ten months ago. What I think about now is completely different.
When I read about the bombings at the Boston Marathon yesterday, my first thought was of my husband’s colleague, Tom, who runs the marathon each year in full gear for the Wounded Warrior project.
We’d been talking about Tom’s extreme commitment to bring attention to this worthy cause, how he wears blood-stained combat boots — and the blood is from his own toes rubbing against the boots as he runs, year after year. Tom is a veteran, a hero, and he runs because he can, to honor others heroes and veterans, those who cannot.
I thought of Tom, and I »
I’m sharing a team related post as we wrap up the relaunch week for Mark Miller’s book, The Secret of Teams. Will you share a tweet about the book, now?
{Tweet It} Find out what it takes to create an unstoppable team, and learn What Great Teams Know and Do. http://bit.ly/TeamSecret #SecretofTeams
I learned early lessons about teamwork in summers of faded bathing suits, swim caps, bare feet, crushed ice, and tan lines.
The summer I turned nine, my family lived in Colonial Heights, Virginia, in a neighborhood that I can still walk through in my mind, although we only »
