Goals & Practices
Less is More: When You’re Saying Too Much And Getting Ignored
Today’s Tuesday Reading “Less is More: When You’re Saying Too Much And Getting Ignored” is Lisa Evans’ review of Joseph McCormack’s book Brief: Making a Bigger Impact by Saying Less. The review appeared in FastCompany.com. McCormack is a marketing executive who, among other activities, counsels military leaders and senior executives on key messaging and strategy initiatives. In spite of […]
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To is this week’s Tuesday Reading. Heidi Grant-Halvorson is author of this essay which appeared in the HBR Blog Network. Grant-Halvorson is associate director for the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University Business School and author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Everyone […]
If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material
Today’s Tuesday Reading “If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material” <http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/if-youre-not-helping-people-develop-youre-not-management-material/>, first appeared in the HBR Blog Network. The author is Monique Valcour, Professor of Management at EDHEC business school in France. She focuses on helping companies and individuals craft high performance, meaningful jobs, careers, workplaces, and lives. Professor Valcour argues that […]
4 Habits of the Most Resilient People
Today’s Tuesday Reading is “4 Habits of the Most Resilient People” and is an excerpt from Ready to be a Thought Leader? by Denise Brosseau. Brosseau is founder and CEO of Thought Leadership Lab. She has an MBA from Stanford and in 2012 she has honored by the White House as a “Champion of Change.” It’s a […]
The Immediate vs the Important – Managing Interruptions
Getting to the important work is critical for leaders. Developing strategies to manage interruptions then is a must. Watch, reflect, develop strategies to manage. Enjoy.
Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence
Today’s Tuesday Reading turns to the subject of confidence by considering Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s essay “Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence”. Professor Kanter is Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at the Harvard Business School and the author of Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End. Kanter notes that to be a more confident […]
The Best of TED: 5 Public Speaking Lessons from 30 Years of Spreading Ideas
Today’s reading, “The Best of TED” is a story that appeared in a March issue of FastCompany. It’s based on research by Carmine Gallo who analyzed 500 of the most popular TED talks to identify what makes a TED talk great. Gallo is a technology writer and author of Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets […]
“Practice, Practice, Practice”
This week’s Tuesday Reading, “Practice, Practice, Practice” was written by Lucrecia Kim-Boswell as a leadership reflection earlier this year in one of the IT Leaders Programs. Lucrecia is an IT Capacity Manager at Stanford University. “I had a session with my boxing coach some weeks ago where we made a key discovery. For weeks, […]
Lessons in Leadership: How Lincoln Became America’s Greatest President
The Tuesday Reading this week is Lessons in Leadership: How Lincoln Became America’s Greatest President, an essay by Hitendra Wadhwa, Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Business at Columbia University. This essay appeared on Inc.com earlier this year. In his essay Professor Wadhwa examines how Lincoln developed the self-discipline to take one of his […]
The Laws of Simplicity
Today’s Tuesday Reading, The Laws of Simplicity, is drawn from John Maeda’s book by the same title, and the associated website. Maeda is President of the Rhode Island School of Design. He is an artist, designer, and technologist. Before going to RISD in 2008, he was a professor and associate director of research at MIT’s Media […]