Leadership

Brian McDonald reflects on the horrific set of events that took place in Greater Boston and he points out several enduring leadership principles.   .  .  .  jim   The Boston Bombing Was Close to Homeby Brian McDonald, President, MOR Associates, Watertown, MA Marathon Monday is a wonderful tradition in Boston going back 117 years. It […]

Erika Andersen is a leadership coach and founder of Proteus International, a consulting, coaching, and training firm focused on leader readiness. Her essay appeared in a Fast Company newsletter. Andersen notes that people want leaders who look beyond today, who have and compellingly articulate a clear positive future state toward which they can focus their efforts.  In […]

Anna Mar, engagement manager and senior writer at simplacable.com posits that open positions in your organization are precursors to contests.  This piece was suggested by Bill Allison, an ITLP alum who is Director, Campus Technology Services at the University of California, Berkeley.  Bill noted that the short piece is valuable even when the leadership contest isn’t bitter […]

  Todays Reading,  “Leadership Reflections from a ‘Motorbike,’” Part 2 continues IT•LP reflection written by Michelle Reynolds, alumnus of IT•LP 2012 and Assistant Director for Central IT Support at Cornell.   Last week Michelle led us to reflect on her first five rules:    •  Stay alert    •  Be conscientious of the neighborhood    •  Visibility is important    •  Everyone can see things […]

  Todays Reading,  “Leadership Reflections from a ‘Motorbike,’ is a IT•LP reflection written by Michelle Reynolds, alumnus of IT•LP 2012 and Assistant Director for Central IT Support at Cornell.   Michelle’s reflection, which follows, provides us with “10 Rules of the Road,” the leadership road, that is.  And, they serve as a helpful reminder of some of the […]

The Tuesday Reading today is “Success Will Come and Go, But Integrity is Forever”, an essay by Amy Rees Anderson which appeared recently in Forbes.  Anderson is the Managing Partner and Founder of REES Capital which provides entrepreneurs and business executives critical guidance and support to help their companies grow.  Previously, she founded and managed number of […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading is “6 Exercises To Strengthen Compassionate Leadership” and was written by Andrew Newberg, an M.D. and author, who with Mark Robert Waldman has written the book “Words Can Change Your Brain.”  Newberg is also Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading comes from Leading Effectively, the blog of the Center for Creative Leadership and is  “’Doing’ and ‘Being’ a Leader:  Not the Same Thing.”  The essay can be found at <http://www.leadingeffectively.com/doing-and-being-a-leader-not-the-same-thing/>.  The blog post is by Clemson Turregano who designs and delivers CCL leadership programs for senior military and government officials. Turregano begins his essay with […]

Today’s Reading, “What Would the Next CIO Do?  How to Preempt Your Successor ” deceptively titled.  If you are a leader, the article is really for you!   The essay’s author is Bryon Payne, CIO at North Georgia College and State University, and it first appeared at cio.com.   Payne’s thesis is very simple:  new […]

Today’s reading, “Smart Leaders Get More Out of the Employees They Have”, is by Liz Wiseman, president of The Wiseman Group, a management research and development center in Silicon Valley and author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, and comes from the HBR Blog Network. Wiseman’s point in her article is simple:  […]

Today’s reading “What Successful People Do With the First Hour of Their Work Day” by Kevin Purdy, a freelance writer, first appeared in FastCompany.  It’s not a new message – you heard it during your IT Leaders Program sessions – but it is presented in new voices. Purdy points out that many leaders do, and […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading “Are You Sure You’re Not A Bad Boss?” first appeared in the Harvard Business Review’s Blog Network.  Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman are, respectively, the CEO and the president of Zenger | Folkman, a leadership development consultancy.  They are co-authors of the October 2011 HBR article “Making Yourself Indispensable,” and the book How to Be Exceptional: […]

Several weeks ago while reading the Leading News leadership letter I found today’s reading “On Gratitude.”  It’s author, Patricia Wheeler <Patricia Wheeler [email protected]>, is an executive and team coach who helps smart people become more effective leaders. As Managing Partner in the Levin Group LLC, she has spent 15 years consulting to organizations and coaching senior leaders and their […]

Today’s reading is “The Simplicity Thesis” by Aaron Levie, CEO and cofounder of Box. Levie begins his piece with the provocative statement “A fascinating trend is consuming Silicon Valley and beginning to eat away at the rest of the world:  the radical simplification of everything.”  He continues by noting Jeff Bezos’ “rallying cry against gatekeepers […]

Today’s reading “Olympic Games” is a reflection from Julie Shuttleworth, member of the 2012 Leadership@Penn cohort.  She is Director of Administrative Affairs in the Provost’s office at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes: With the 2012 Summer Olympics having just ended, I am reminded that it takes vision, hard work, dedication, presence and some natural talent […]

Today’s reading is “How to Get Feedback When You’re the Boss” and is from Amy Gallo’s pen.  She is a contributing editor at the Harvard Business Review. Gallo observes that as you move up in an organization you receive less constructive feedback on your ideas, performance and strategy.  The point is no one wants to offend the […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading, “I Have Terrible News:  Value of Communication in Honesty”, is a Jack Zenger article which appeared at Forbes.com.  Zenger is CEO of Zenger | Folkman, a Utah-based consulting company focused on leadership development.  He and his partner, Joe Folkman, are authors of The Extraordinary Leader. The key idea in this article is […]

Today’s reading – “Stop Chasing the Wrong Priorities”  – comes from the pens of Kelly Goldsmith and Marshall Goldsmith and appeared in a recent CBS News blog.  Marshall Goldsmith is a well-known author, leadership thinker, and executive coach.  Kelly Goldsmith is assistant professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. The reading builds […]

Today’s Reading is a blog entry “6 steps to resolve conflict”by Robert Pagliarini which appeared recently  on the CBS News MoneyWatch website.  Pagliarini works to inspire others to live life to the fullest by challenging the way they invest their time and energy. We all experience conflict and the emotional turmoil that ensues.  So, what can one do […]

This week’s Tuesday Reading “12 Things Good Bosses Believe”comes from Bob Sutton’s pen and appeared in the Harvard Business Review blogs.  Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.  He studies and writes about management, innovation, and the nitty-gritty of organizational life.  He is author of Good Boss, Bad Boss. Part of Sutton’s research has […]