Many executives talk about the legacy that they want to leave. The current challenges of British Petroleum with the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico provide a clear set of lessons about the legacy any executive leaves.
Lesson One: A Leadership Legacy is Built in the Past
BP was a company under fire until a [...]
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BP, Tony Hayward and Leadership Legacy
May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Follow the Leaders, Organizations at Their Best, Thoughts on Life and Leadership
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Leading Change: It’s About Friction, Force and Risk
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Organizations at Their Best, Team Notes
I recently spent a half-day with students at the William J. Clinton School of Public Service. They are a remarkable group of students working on a Masters degree in Public Service. We spent our time focusing on a framework for personal leadership as well as some practical tools for their teams to use as they [...]
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“We Did Not Spend Time Arguing About the Writing”
May 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Great Questions, Organizations at Their Best, Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
I was listening to a podcast of this week’s broadcast of “Wait Wait, don’t Tell Me” this morning at the gym. (OK, you got me, I am a fan of weekend NPR broadcasting.) They were interviewing Liev Schreiber who seems to bounce between playing Shakespeare and big-armed scifi roles such as Sabretooth in the latest [...]
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PonderThis: Leaders Need for Rest and Renewal
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Organizations at Their Best, PonderThis, Uncategorized
It is Friday and I am supposed to post a PonderThis for the weekend. But I am also exhausted from a 53 hour period of not sleeping while I worked a full day and then returned from Bangkok, complete with a stopover to see an old friend in Seoul. I was about to punt, knowing [...]
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My Own Plan for Economic Stimulus
February 17th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Great Questions, Leadership Lessons from the Links, Organizations at Their Best, Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
At some point today, President Obama will sign a gianormous bill aimed at jump starting the economy. What I wonder is… what does the bill change about how we will do all those projects? How much is allocated for programs that will help us to not use that money to recreate conditions that got us [...]
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