Don’t Play the Blame Game

Successful leaders take accountability for their actions.  They don’t play the blame game.  But if you have lived and operated in corporate life at all, you know the blame game is alive and well in most organizations.  This starts from the top down.  As the...

Be a Better Listener – Squint With Your Ears

Listening is an art.  Some are good at it.  A few are great at it.  Most are not.  Almost all wives will say their husbands don’t listen well.  And survey after survey of employees say that their leadership does not listen to them.  Listening is one of the keys...

Quality of a Leader – Be real, not right

Early in my career, I thought that the smartest, brightest people were always in charge.  I was fortunate to work for some real solid leaders who “knew their stuff”.  And in that era, in the Information Services industry (as it was called then), technical...