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N2Growth Blog : Leadership and Opportunity

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:14:31 +0000

Wharton professor Mike Useem calls it the "Leadership Moment." I believe that it's really one of the most significant keys to leadership. Leaders understand that you never know when the next opportunity may come across your bow. Take advantage of the moment to exercise leadership and you will rise above the rest.

N2Growth Blog : Intellect...an Asset or Liability?

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:56:45 +0000

This post really resonated with me as I'm sure it did with many others as well. I once worked for someone who I consider to be extremely high on the "intellectual" intelligent scale but bankrupt when it came to emotional intelligence. He accomplished a lot of things in his young life but not near as many as he could have. It was very painful to watch and be part of it. I hate to stereotype or generalize about intelligence and leadership, but my personal experience definitely supports your post and I think the short list at the end nails it. Thanks.

N2Growth Blog : What If Leadership Was More Than a Buzzword

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:11:15 +0000

Thought provoking post with super comments! As usual. In the maritime world we have a similar word that is often a catalyst for lively conversation: seamanship. Like leadership, it defies our tendency to want to break it down and put it's pieces neatly into little boxes. Seamanship, like leadership, is about having the capacity to adapt to constantly changing conditions and exercising the requisite skill(s) to produce a positive outcome. The sea can teach us a lot about leadership. On the Weekly Leader podcast we try to focus our discussions on the exercise of leadership and to avoid using the term leader or leadership as a noun and/or role. (This objective ends up being nearly impossible to accomplish, but we try.) Leadership, like seamanship, is something that you practice or exercise. Adding those 4 letters to a noun complicates things. It tries to make it into an art form, the interpretation/appreciation of which will always lie in the eye of the beholder. Finally, "bad" leadership, if there can be such a thing, can usually be most closely tied to authority or role. (some politicians come to mind). But "good" leadership is always a result of positive activity or influence. We can discuss or argue all day long about defining leadership, but like Justice Potter Stewart once said about another controversial subject, "I know it when I see it." Thanks again for producing such a great post and to all of the other commenters that have added value to it.

Weekly Leader : Experience Means Nothing - Judgement is Everything

Sun, 30 May 2010 15:32:06 +0000

Mario, Thanks for another great, thought-provoking post. While leadership is filled with all kinds of challenges, this is one of the most difficult to address. Since experience most often informs and guides judgement, how do we avoid falling into comfort, complacency and overconfidence in decisionmaking. This is particularly important in times of crisis where we often don't have time to consider a wide range of options outside of our sphere of experience. This is where education and training can play an important role. However, even with this, it is impossible to anticipate every outcome. One of the age old questions of leadership is how do we recognize when to use our experience where we need to and abandon it when we don't?

Weekly Leader : Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel Pink - A Work Life Lead review

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:18:04 +0000

Thanks for visiting and commenting Bart. Enjoy the book. The podsafe music leading into Dan Pink's interview was Drive by Rotoscope. There are live links in the shownotes. http://wp.me/pjJvD-Vt Thanks for being a podcast listener too!

Weekly Leader : Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 38 - Noah Alper, Business Mensch

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:59:50 +0000

Thank you for providing such great podsafe music!

Weekly Leader : Work Life Lead: Is Showing Up Enough?

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:24:02 +0000

Ed, thanks for another great post. I couldn't agree with you more. I love what new technology can do to connect people and create opportunity. Twitter and Facebook have become so popular that they will soon become as ubiquitous as the telephone This is not a bad thing; in fact, it's a great thing. The point is that they are simply tools to connect us. What we do with them will define our outcomes. In the end, it doesn't matter how large and wide your networks are. It's your contributions that will make a difference and create value. Don't stand by idly.

Weekly Leader : Twitter Leadership Follow Friday Project (@CEO_INGDirect @JohnBRogers @Nilofer)

Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:30:08 +0000

Hi Jennifer, Thanks for visiting, commenting and sharing some TweeterLeaders! Maybe we can get you to guest post for an upcoming Weekly Leader Twitter Leadership Follow Friday Project post. Let me know if your interested. Thanks again!

Weekly Leader : Leadership Q&A: A Leader’s Guide to Social Media

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:27:48 +0000

Thanks Ed. In the Weekly Leader podcast, we always ask our guests how they and their companies are using social media to lead and manage. Many, like Peter Aceto, ceo of ING Direct Canada and Jay Rogers, ceo/co-founder of Local Motors, are enhusiastically embracing these tools and continuously experimenting with them. As we are currently experiencing a fundamental shift in how people communicate, relate and work, with social media playing a very significant role, those with skills in this area will end up with a meaningful competitive advantage for the future.

Weekly Leader : A Little Perspective

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:14:18 +0000

Sorry about your experience. I had trouble replicating it. What operating system and browser version are you using? That would be helpful in order to debug. Thanks.

Weekly Leader : Leadership lessons from my Dad

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:47:36 +0000

Pam, thanks for the great post on this 100th anniversary of Fathers' Day. It sounds to me like your dad knows more than a thing or two about leadership; glad it rubbed off on you. Peter

Weekly Leader : The Bilderberg Club (Nothing to See Here)

Tue, 19 May 2009 03:53:12 +0000

Phil, Thanks for visiting, commenting and educating us about David Icke. Come on, you're telling us that this guy isn't credible on this subject? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4UyEUldOLQ Putting aside his crackpot credentials, the Bilderberg Group/Club does make one pause to think about what's so important that elected officials meet with some of the most powerful business people in the world behind closed doors and forever sworn to secrecy. While I'm typically not a conspiracy theorist, this does leave me wondering. BTW, enjoy what you're doing at The Leadership Hub. Keep up the great work!

Weekly Leader : Weekly Leader Blog of the Week: Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:56:25 +0000

Wally, thanks for visiting and commenting at Weekly Leader. Congratulations again on your 1,000 post but even more importantly, thanks for producing a great leadership resource.

gCaptain.com — A Blog About Ships : Best Maritime Blogs of 2009 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 01:06:00 +0000

Wow, somehow I missed this one. Thanks for mentioning seaz.me. We've got some very exciting maritime projects on the ways ready for launching. Keep a lookout!

Weekly Leader : The Opposite of Mentoring

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:36:59 +0000

Hmmm, while I agree that conflict and confrontation can very often have positive effects on an organization, I really can't think of a single instance where badmouthing someone, your boss, peer or subordinate could have a positive outcome. In my experience, it becomes such a distraction that it can cause a complete productivity breakdown with in the organization. Now, I'd be lying if I said that I've never engaged in it at early points in my career. Heck, it's only human nature. But as I got older and more experienced I tried to refrain from it for just the reasons Mario lays out above. Marcia, thanks for visiting and sharing your valuable food for thought with us.

Weekly Leader : The Letter

Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:00:45 +0000

Thanks for reminding us what's really important. Time for me to turn off the computer and go find my kids and give them a hug.

Weekly Leader : Leadership Malpractice? (Harvard's Discussion Leader)

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:28:57 +0000

Thanks for visiting and commenting. I definitely agree with you that executives should be held accountable in much the same way other professionals are but I'm not optimistic that this will happen anytime soon. It took quite a while for white collar crime to be treated as crime; let's hope that Kellerman's liability and malpractice concepts uptake a little quicker.