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Leadership and a Mirror

July 16, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Leadership - HRB Family Business Consulting - we need to understand the importance of leading ourselves well and realizing what is at stake if we do not.

  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]

Filed Under: Leadership, Leadership Style Tagged With: Business Leadership, leadership

Family Business Leadership starts with Self-Leadership, Self-awareness

March 6, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

Leaders, Family Business Leaders need to be self-aware. They need to know and understand their strengths and weaknesses. At times family businesses wrinkle their nose, shake their head at the suggestion of a SWOT analysis. Being self-aware is that personal inventory, a personal SWOT.

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]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Leadership Tagged With: Be Self Aware, Consciousness, family business, Family Business Leadership, leadership, Psychology Of Self, Self, Self Awareness, Self Control, swot analysis

Business Leaders — Tested by Fire?

February 2, 2015 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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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]

Filed Under: Business Leaders Tagged With: Abraham Zaleznik, business leaders, family business, leadership, Process Business, Twice Born

Friends, Counsel and Performance

December 27, 2013 By HRB Family Business Consulting 2 Comments

Great friends share and make us all richer, more intelligent and complete.

“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]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business Tagged With: Behavior, Friends, Great Friends, leadership, Motivation, performance, team

Leadership

September 18, 2013 By HRB Family Business Consulting 2 Comments

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis

  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]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: family business, Larry Page, leadership, Leadership Small Business, positive psychology, strategic management, succession planning, Warren Bennis

3 Keys to Effectively Giving Thanks

April 18, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

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]

Filed Under: Family Owned Business, Leadership Style Tagged With: ability, appreciate, appreciation, effectively, employee happiness, giving thanks, job satisfaction, leadership, leadership style, meaning, thanks

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

Hoshin Kanri And Business Process Management (BPM)

February 1, 2012 By HRB Family Business Consulting Leave a Comment

 . 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]

Filed Under: Continuous Improvement, Process Management Tagged With: anticipatory thinking, bpm, Business process, business process management, business process management bpm, family business consulting, hoshin, hoshin kanri, hoshin planning, leadership, management, process management, processes, strategic management, team sport

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