Tag Archives: budget

#BlackFriday: Are We Shopping Sheep or Creative #Followers?

November 29, 2013 · by · in Creative Followership, Popular Culture, Sustainable Leadership · 1 Comment

Last year, I wrote about the zombie followers lining up for Black Friday deals. (By the way, I was one of them!) This year, I’m on a budget and in impulse buy recovery, so I’ve decided not to shop today. (When my online “deals” came in the mail, several of them weren’t exactly what I […]

Change without Leadership: How Fearful Leaders Create Failure

May 17, 2013 · by · in Dilbert, Laughing about Leadership, Leadership Training, Sustainable Leadership · 3 Comments

Models, frameworks, restructuring — oh my! Too often, this is leadership a la Wizard of Oz — all bells and whistles and sacrifice by everyone but the leader hiding behind the curtain, all to mask the fact that not enough assessment has been done to facilitate change without creating panic and despair. Good leaders take […]

Metaphors and Leadership: How Do We Make Sense of This Crisis?

March 6, 2013 · by · in Aloha Leadership, Barack Obama, Healing Leadership · 3 Comments

We live through story; so it’s important to pay attention to the metaphors we use about our leaders. In the Washington Post yesterday, David Ignatius used a powerful metaphor to describe the sequestration crisis. It tells a difficult about leadership, about the crisis, and about what we need to do. Co-dependent Leadership and the House […]