Bill Hybels talks about 360 leadership. Leading those above, those who work for you and those on an even par. Austin McCann wrote in his blog, “In leadership, the hardest person to lead is not other people, but it is ourselves. We can see that even Paul faced the frustration of trying to lead [Continue Reading]
Family Business Leadership starts with Self-Leadership, Self-awareness
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World is the title of a 2013 book by Joseph Badaracco. Badaracco is a professor of Business ethics at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Associate Dean, Chair of the MBA Program. This work made me reflect on some of the Family Businesses HRB is working with — [Continue Reading]
Business Leaders — Tested by Fire?
Business Leaders motivate, Business Leaders acknowledge failure as part of the process, Business Leaders delegate and listen. In 1989 Abraham Zaleznik, wrote “Leaders are ‘twice-born’ individuals who endure major events that lead to a sense of separateness…from their environments,” he continued. “That sense of separateness may be a necessary condition for their ability to lead.” [Continue Reading]
Friends, Counsel and Performance
“If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.” No one achieves real success alone. We depend on our core friends, associates to [Continue Reading]
Leadership
What is Leadership? What is Leadership in a Family business? Family business success is based on Leadership. Succession planning, strategy in a family owned business needs a leader. One definition is “Leadership is the professed desire and commitment to serve others by subordinating personal interests to the needs of those being led through effectively [Continue Reading]
3 Keys to Effectively Giving Thanks
As leaders most of us mean well but forget one really important skill… the ability to showing appreciation. According to the US Dept of Labor, the number one reason Americans leave their jobs is because they didn’t feel appreciated and currently 64% of Americans don’t feel appreciated at work! That’s staggering … on the other [Continue Reading]
To Lead is to Serve!
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]
Hoshin Kanri And Business Process Management (BPM)
. Hoshin Kanri is an Eastern phrase. Toyota uses it and translates it as the “point of a compass, the shiny needle that points true North or The Direction.” Key Operating Indicators that are linked and shared are past of a Hoshin System. Everyone in an organization understands that these metrics point the direction we [Continue Reading]