Communication Is The Core Of Leadership
You can’t lead without communicating effectively. You can give orders and tasks, but you will never be a leader.
The Art Of This Site…
Occasionally, I get an email or a comment about the nature of my site… And, for the most part, I don’t get business because someone is Googling organizational development, communication, or leadership and find me. The art of this blog is in the fact that I have worked to drop a new idea out into […]
Responsibilities of Communication
Communication at its most basic is a transfer of information between two living beings. Yet, as a society, we spend a lot of time focusing on the talking aspect of communication. When the real money is made in the listening, where people can tell you their wants, needs, desires. But as communicators, both senders and […]
Smart Firms Lead Softly
I’ve been playing with this idea of “leading softly” for several weeks now. And, it started as a simple idea about project managers leading from a place of communication and soft skills first. But as I have gone further with my thought process, I have begun to think about softly not just as the ability […]
4 Things Project Managers Can Learn From NYC’s “SnowGate…”
So…I lived in NYC for 10 years and it snows a lot in January and February. I guess it is winter in the Northeast. While I live in DC now and Mayor Gray and the District seemed to have the salt trucks and plows out early and often throughout the snowstorm, I couldn’t help but […]
The Most Important Question You Can Ask In Business…
You can ask a lot of questions in business, but the most important one you can ask is simple: Why? Why are our sales slipping? Why is our marketing not gaining traction? Why isn’t our leadership communicating effectively with all of our team members? Why can’t we innovate? Why can’t we grow more quickly? You […]
You Can Learn A Lot From This Government Shutdown…(And, It Isn’t What You Think)
As anyone with a pulse probably knows, we are in the middle of a government shutdown currently with the added pressure of the looming need for the country’s debt ceiling needing to be raised or we won’t have enough money on hand to pay our bills which would put the United States in default for […]