I was fooling around with Google last night, reading about equine-guided leadership (leadership a la the Horse Whisperer) and plugged in “different kinds of leadership training” to see what would turn up. That search term yielded 5,600,000 results, whereas “how to write a resume” yielded only 1,200,000. Somehow, I expected the opposite results.
With so many […]
I’ve always believed that boxes get a bad rap and that understanding them is the key to enhancing your creativity.During a conversation on changing the culture in his company, a CEO said, “It’s hard to think about getting outside of the box, because sometimes I forget the box is there.” Don’t we all.
But that’s OK. […]
After I wrote my post yesterday I got to thinking that there’s a major disconnect going on. Here’s why:
As mentioned yesterday, the 2007 National Business Ethics Survey® found that “Over the past year, more than half (56 percent) of employees surveyed had personally observed violations of company ethics standards, policy, or the law. Many […]
We choose whom to hire/follow/marry/date/befriend—or not.
Some of those choices work out and some don’t, but it’s when we choose someone who’s flawed, who just isn’t nice, that often bothers us the most. How could we have missed it—it always seems so obvious after the fact—and we end up wondering why our social judgment is so […]
In general, followers fall into two categories—thinking and unthinking.All of us have issue-specific litmus tests and look for a general comfort level with other followers.
Thinking followers usually have a broader definition of comfort, critically evaluate individual ideas and attitudes, as opposed to blind across-the-board acceptance, and are more willing to consider compromises. They often challenge […]
A lot.
Let me start by saying that my answer and the following opinions are strictly mine; I’m not speaking for b5Media or any group, organization, etc. Just me.
My focus isn’t meant to be just race or gender issues, but on the attitude that I’m/we’re-Right-so-you-should-do/think-our-way-or-else. It’s not the ‘we’re right/you’re wrong’ that bothers me, but the […]
What responsibility does leadership—business, political, religious, community—bear in fostering hate and intolerance?
I’ve asked and been asked this question many times in recent years, since intolerance seems to be on the upswing and thought I’d throw it open to a wider and more diverse audience then normally present.
In fairness to the conversation I’ll start by laying […]
Yesterday I commented that politically correct (pc) seems be shorthand for hypocrisy. Three high profile pop culture stars recently provided examples by being undeniably incorrect—Mel Gibson’s tirade on Jews, which he claimed were “blurted out in a moment of insanity”, Isaiah Washington’s gay name calling for which he went into rehab (for homophobia?) in an […]
Today’s post kicks off a discussion about leadership, hate and the loss of tolerance.
A couple of months ago I wrote Are you an unconscious bigot? One of the comments pointed out that what’s funny from one person isn’t funny from another and that’s true, one should always consider the source of the comment before evaluating […]
There’s a brain function that most of us have that I call AMS. AMS stands for
Assumption: We think about something we’re going to do or say and decide what the outcome will be.
Manipulation: Then we do or say it in […]
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