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To Lead is to Serve!

March 19, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

In 1958, Robert Greenleaf published his essay, “Essentials of Servant Leadership”. The core as explained in the “Essentials” is: “The servant-leader is servant first… Becoming a servant-leader begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Business, Leadership Tagged With: business, eric kail, family business consulting, greenleaf, leader, leadership, leadership character, management, military leadership, privileging, robert k. greenleaf, servant, servant leader, servant leadership

The Real Deal “Shadows”

October 31, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

A few friends have a Michigan-based public relations, social marketing and search engine optimization firm and the past ten years have been good years for their growth and volume. Recently I had dinner with Andre and Mackey; we shared work stories. Without disclosing any client names they were clamoring to share a recent project, a [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Leadership Tagged With: business character

Privileges And Responsibilities

August 8, 2011 By mco 1 Comment

This week we encountered a number of situations that drove me back to metrics. In business we should spend some time measuring, we should measure sales, profits, growth rates, ROI (return on investment) and rate of growth. An issue with many of these metrics is that they report history rather than being a tool to [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Accountability, Leadership Tagged With: metrics, Privilege, Responsibility

Leading Change — Let Go of the Banana

June 6, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Leading Change — Let Go of the Banana By Terry Seamon Guest Columnist Snopes says it’s an urban legend. But just a few days ago, there it was again, the story of how to catch a monkey. In the most recent version (in a great blog entry by international business consultant Aad Boot), the monkey [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Change, leadership, leading change, letting go

What Do You Call A Leader With No Followers? Just A Guy Taking A Walk!

May 23, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Leadership. Walk through any business section of a book store will amaze you at the tonnage of books related to Leadership, in business. You’ll find texts offering Bill Gates secrets, Bill Russell’s rules, how Jack Welch earned his title, “Neutron Jack”, and Jeff Bezos and the creation of Amazon.com. You’ see books by Maxwell listing [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Leadership Style Tagged With: leadership style

Smart Goals – Can you see yours?

May 7, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Can you see your goal? Is it Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, given a Timeframe? Bobby Jones, the famous golfer said, “I’ve played a few rounds with friends, but I’ve never played a friendly round.” Golf like many other sports requires “muscle memory”. Muscle memory is when you train your muscles to perform the same way [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Leadership Style Tagged With: family business planning, performance planning, setting goals

Language defines the message in business culture

May 3, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Language matters. Spoken language is the most powerful communication tool used to enable teams, cultures and companies. Time and time again we see great leaders investing time and grappling with the message. They understand that spoken words, capture the imagination, excite, inspire, ignite action and raise spirits. Language matters! Great teams, great cultures have their [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Leadership, Leadership Style Tagged With: business culture, family business, leadership style

Larry Page – Leadership Lessons from Google’s Co-founder

April 10, 2011 By mco Leave a Comment

Larry Page is a local guy born in East Lansing. He is the son of two MSU professors. Page attended the University of Michigan and Stanford. Google was born as his Ph.D. dissertation, originally called ‘BackRub’. Do you think Larry Page manages Google like a Family Business? In a recent Fast Company feature it shares [Continue Reading]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Leadership Tagged With: family business, Google, media, metrics

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