Every successful leader gets this question posed to them at one time or another: “How did you do it?” It’s always enlightening to read and hear the answers, because, after all, these folks have the benefit of hindsight to piece together all the relevant and important steps that led them to the top of the heap. I’ve …
I’m sure you’ve all heard this one before: “You Only Have One Chance To Make A Great First Impression” In fact, I bet you’ve heard it hundreds of times. Because it’s true. “First Impressions” leave an indelible mark on everyone – a mark that takes up so much space in the brain that the second, third, fourth, and …
The other day I was cleaning out some of my old files and I came across an article I had copied from the Wall Street Journal back on October 21st, 1993, written by Peter Drucker. It was entitled, “The Five Deadly Business Sins”. After scanning through the lessons I remembered why I took the time to …
Tick, tick, tick………. It’s relentless, this thing called time. Our world, and our very existence, has long been connected to the passing seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. “Now” is forever fleeting, because in one passing second, it becomes “Then”. And in the business world, this realization becomes all the more acute when it comes to using …
Front Line Leadership Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Today in Part 2, I’m presenting the other key tactic – Create The …
As Halloween approaches, I’ve been thinking about monsters lately. Leadership monsters. Not the evil ones, but the kind that have a gigantic positive impact on their workplaces – more like “scary good”. In fact, there is a particular kind of leadership monster that is really scary good – one with three heads. It needs three heads because …
With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as …
(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum, called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His …
Imagine the quest for leadership success as an episode of Wheel of Fortune – there’s a puzzle put in front of you, with just a couple of clues on how to solve it. You work your way though a lot of it on your own, but then you get stuck. You can’t do it by yourself …
We don’t get too many opportunities to pause and reflect on how we define ourselves as leaders, and then, more importantly, how that ultimately gets communicated to those we lead. We can either consciously or subconsciously develop a vocabulary that sets the tone, plants the flag, and serves as guideposts for our teammates. If we’re not …
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