In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement address to the Stanford graduating class of approximately 5,000 students. “I never graduated college,” he began, and then held his audience’s attention as he told three stories. The first story was about “connecting the dots”. Jobs told them that even though he dropped out, he continued to attend…
Success, however you define it, may not be easy to attain, but what you need to do to be successful is simple. You’re the boss. The buck stops with you. If you want your organization to be successful, you have to get it from where it is at “A” to where you want to go–“B”.
I talk with CEOs almost every day who appear to have two people residing in their bodies: The Fearless Leader and the Fearful Manager. When the Fearless Leader is in charge, she has a clear vision of the company’s future and plans to get it there. She knows she will need to invest time, energy, human resources and money to
“People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.” ~ Simon Sinek Business leaders and advisors who have worked with me know that I believe that they need to be crystal clear about their answers to three questions: Who do you work with? (Who are your customers/clients?) What do you give them
I’ve been inspired to write this today by my daughter, Madeline. I just posted it to Facebook. While there are people who don’t want to know about all your trials and tribulations, Madeline told me, there are also people who would feel badly if you excluded them from the important things in your life—good or
Image credit: Pixabay Leading and managing have become so synonymous with each other in our language that an employee might refer to his boss as either. But the two terms are not interchangeable. RetailerNow offers succinct definitions for leaders and managers: leading serves as the heart, they propose, while managing acts as the brains.
