All Entries in the "Leadership Principles" Category
It’s Not About You … No One Cares
Here’s a news flash! When you talk about your company, about your organization or about yourself … NO ONE CARES!
Pillars of Leadership in the Internet Era
Among upcoming appearances, it is my pleasure to speak at the Bronze Quill Awards of the Houston IABC on April 30. Here is a piece the Houston IABC chapter requested to post on their blog: It used to be that we just had to keep track of journalists as they moved around their industry. Today, [...]
Communications Leadership: Storytelling
Brooke Gladstone of National Public Radio’s “On the Media” program says: “Journalists are taught to talk and write in human terms. Tell me a story.” We are all part of a storytelling culture in America. It’s been that way forever, and it’s no different in countries, cultures and communities around the world. We share stories [...]
Tactics Seldom Work, Without Strategy
More than ever, I am convinced we live in a tactics-driven world, and it’s leading us in a downward direction. When we embrace tactics, we relinquish leadership, by default. When tactics are used, it reveals a level of anxiety over needing to get fast results. But results don’t work that way. Congress tries to fix [...]
World Wide Rave
Let me just begin this review of David Meerman Scott’s “World Wide Rave” by saying that I admire and respect the innovative concepts that David teaches. If you are in marketing or communications or public relations or, especially, the leader of an organization, today’s world has gotten to be too competitive, too fast-moving, and too [...]
The One Best Quality of a Leader
While doing many media interviews over the last few weeks about my new book, The Media Savvy Leader, there’s one question that is nearly always asked: What one single quality distinguishes a good leader in today’s world? My answer, based on research for my book and my own experience, is always the same – the [...]
Are You a Media Savvy Leader?
An interview I recently gave to the Council of Public Relations Firms is now online. The title is, “Are You a Media Savvy Leader? How Agency Heads Can Boost Results in a Tight Economy,” and delivers tips on boosting competitive leadership in the PR industry. Here is the interview, with special thanks to reporter/editor Brian [...]
Forgotten Remembrances
I had a wonderful experience recently, being in the same room with and watching two remarkable talents. One was a teacher, Holiday Reinhorn. Holly has a natural gift for teaching creative writing magic. The other person was the student, Clare Jamal O’Brien. That’s Clare in the photo on the right. Clare is currently working on [...]
Is Human Resources the Culprit?
At the recent Changing Times conference I attended in Europe, there were many conversations over lunch and in the evenings about careers. And, I heard a troubling concern among the young adult professionals from Europe, America and the Middle East – how to find a job of value where they can make a difference, work [...]
Young Adult Leaders: Changing Times
(Hluboka, Czech Republic) Someone emailed me to ask who was behind … who was sponsoring … the truly outstanding Changing Times Conference – held at the Townshend International School in the southern Czech Republic. The organizers are seen in the photo at the right … five young adult professionals from Europe, America and the Middle [...]
Changing Times: Young Adult Leadership
Between now and the end of the year, I am attending and giving a series of lectures and workshops at the Changing Times European Young Adult Forum. It’s held at the Townshend International School in the southern Czech village of Hluboka nad Vitavou. I have never before known of such an astonishing conference that brings [...]
Size Doesn’t Matter … Skills Do
Sincere thanks to Expert Access and my friend Steve Kayser at Cincom in Cincinnati for featuring my piece on leadership, Size Doesn’t Matter, Skills Do: During many interviews with corporations, organizations, and PR agencies—in addition to the media—in preparation to write my new book, “The Media Savvy Leader,” I found that not many corporate leaders [...]
5-Steps to Becoming a Media Savvy Leader in 2009
There is little room for the status quo or traditional tactics as business and organizations strive for authentic leadership in 2009 and beyond. More than ever before, companies will turn to the media – mainstream and the fast-evolving online New Media of Web 2.0 – as they seek to build brand awareness, leadership positioning, new [...]
Clueless on the Hill
As someone who works with many organizations on leadership, I can say – with tongue in cheek – that none of the CEOs of the Big Three auto makers will ever be accused of being leaders. To the contrary, they are a PR disaster. As their recent demonstration on Capital Hill revealed, they are too [...]
Obama Job Seekers Must Reveal All … Info
President-elect Barack Obama and his staff apparently don’t want any surprises. As a result, they are grilling Obama administration job seekers with a thorough seven-page job questionaire. Suzanne Goldenberg of Britain’s Guardian Newspaper writes: Have you led an entirely blameless – or better yet, blander than bland – existence for your entire adult life?. Can [...]
Obama: Principles of Leadership
Jack Welch, former head of GE, writes in BusinessWeek that Barack Obama won the presidency on three leadership principles: a clear vision, clean execution, and friends in high places. I would add that Mr. Obama was also consistent in purpose and message, and was not distracted … at least publicly … by vicious attacks. Those tenets [...]
