Leadership Turn

March 27th, 2008

Recession—or mindset?

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The following story has been told in various incarnations for more than 40 years.
Once upon a time there was a man who ran a hot dog stand. This man ran one of the finest hot dog stands in the whole city and, strangely for a hot dog stand, he […]

By Miki Saxon -- 7 comments

February 26th, 2008

The greatest leadership WOW ever told

Finding and identifying WOW in anything is exciting, fun and always a two-edged sword—which is the most useful kind as well as the most dangerous. When the talk turns to leadership WOW, the adjectives that you hear most frequently these days are “authentic,” meaning real or genuine, and “servant” meaning it’s all about them—as opposed […]

By Miki Saxon -- 4 comments

February 23rd, 2008

Leader + manager = leadager (part 3)

In the first post in this series Casey Ross’ comment “I’ve been around too many visionary “leaders” who could inspire the heck out of you but could never get one thing accomplished.” got me to thinking.
There may be something else going on along with the “play it safe” mentality engendered by the bean counters (some, […]

By Miki Saxon -- 2 comments

February 7th, 2008

Leadership means change—yours

Sports has long been used as an analogy to various business practices—the best sales training film I ever saw was done by Vince Lombardi explaining how selling was akin to the plays in football. But I don’t hear as much about good business practices being used to motivate a sports team.
Mike Kavis has a great […]

By Miki Saxon -- 3 comments

February 4th, 2008

Leading factors: Papa Murphy asks its customers

Are you a Papa Murphy’s lover? I am. The company is based near me, so I see some interesting tidbits in the local paper. Papa Murphy saw sales increase 13% in 2007. Great, but what caught my eye was this, “The privately held company also tapped into its loyal customer base to help in the […]

By Miki Saxon -- 0 comments

February 3rd, 2008

Yahoo and Microsoft—dot com meets Internet idiot

Logo courtesy of David Armano by way of AbleBrains
To a great extent, mergers succeed or fail based on cultural compatibility and leadership’s ability to integrate the two cultures.”…at least 60 percent of all mergers fail to achieve their goals, according to research by consulting firm Oyster International. That’s partly because leaders fail to recognize […]

By Miki Saxon -- 2 comments

January 28th, 2008

Leading the Millennials

Last week as part of the Odd Blog Couple, I wrote Can youth lead? and over the weekend I had an interesting email discussion with Jim Gordon over at BossHatch. (See all the Odd Blog Couples.)
Jim is midpoint in the youth demographic and mentioned that he had attended an Obama gathering at his campus.
Miki
How […]

By Miki Saxon -- 3 comments

January 22nd, 2008

American idiocy: Carmen Kontur-Gronquist

You’ve probably already read this or seen the various rants around the blogsphere, but in a nutshell here’s what happened.

Kontur-Gronquist is the unpaid mayor of a tiny town of 600.
She’s also a single mom, buff and attractive.
Long before she was elected a female friend took some photos of her in black underwear on the local […]

By Miki Saxon -- 10 comments

January 21st, 2008

Can youth lead?

Kelly, our esteemed editor, loves to challenge us in order to keep us relevant and interesting for you, our readers. Her latest effort involves teaming disparate blogs up for posts on a common topic. I was paired with Eric over at Common Sense PR and our topic is youth and the upcoming election. Check out […]

By Miki Saxon -- 10 comments

January 4th, 2008

What leaders DO: lead change

New books on leadership seem to appear almost daily and many of them have useful insights, but Epic Change: How to Lead Change in the Global Age by Timothy R Clark is one of the best I’ve read.
Clark left Oxford to find an academic position in the US, but instead spent eight years as a […]

By Miki Saxon -- 2 comments