Category Archives: Generational Leadership
Does being a strong follower make you a better leader?
I continuously draw attention to leadership maturity. Much like leadership maturity, effective followership requires maturity, too. Effective followership means executing toward a specific goal while exercising respect for authority, a positive attitude, integrity, and self-discipline. Leaders are followers too, in … Continue reading
How can I get more commitment?
There is a familiar anecdote about Thomas Edison. He was asked, “Mr. Edison, how did you persevere through a thousand failed efforts to make the light bulb?” To which he answered, “I found a thousand ways it doesn’t work.” Edison’s … Continue reading
What does Culture have to do with it?
Organizations today express concerns about generational leadership and succession and wonder what is required to ensure they have the talent in place to lead their organization into the future. Questions abound; is it pay, is it interesting work, is it … Continue reading
Do Managers Who Coach Improve Profitability?
I recently asked a CEO how many people work in his company and he replied, “About half of them.” The Gallup Management Journal’s semi-annual Employee Engagement Index survey of 4.51 million employees in 332 organizations shows that he is (unfortunately) … Continue reading
The ABC of Change
I was interviewed about helping leaders make positive changes through executive coaching. One of the questions really captured my attention, “What do you believe causes change?” Through 12 years of coaching intelligent and mature executives, and over my own lifetime … Continue reading
Leadership lessons from surviving Copter!
Two days ago I downloaded Copter, a simple yet captivating game, to my Blackberry. It only took 30 minutes for my daughter to catch sight of the new distraction. The object of the game is to fly a little helicopter over and … Continue reading
Generational Differences and Training Opportunities
I began to think about how challenging it can be in organizations today when a “younger” employee is asked to show an “older” employee how to perform a task such as the use of the new technology. Can we accept the generational differences and appreciate what each can contribute to each other and to the organization? Continue reading
Success and Leadership Maturity – a Powerful Connection
“It is human to have a long childhood; it is civilized to have an even longer childhood. Long childhood makes a technical and mental virtuoso out of man, but it also leaves a life-long residue of emotional immaturity in him.”— … Continue reading
Can’t believe my eyes
Waves of rich sound were rolling from the stage. I nodded my head to the same rythm that was moving hundreds of heads up and down and undulating bodies from one foot to the other. Reggae music splashed in our ears and flowed … Continue reading
Can you have too much confidence?
I’m raising my daughters to believe in themselves. They have an implicit sense of their value and they expect a level of attention and dialogue that is nothing like my childhood experience. My daughters and a generation of incoming professionals all … Continue reading