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THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

Oct 31, 2017
3 min

THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY

My current leadership journey has found its course in the book “Leading with Soul.” At first, I thought, what does this book have to do with leadership? It felt more like a fictional novel than any type of academic exercise. Fortunately, as I pressed on reading, its importance to a leader became known to me. Bolman and Terrance Deal, (2001), wrote that terms like heart and spirit seem exotic (p. 9). I understand their take but to me the terms heart and spirit are why I exist.

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FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES (Part 2)

Oct 23, 2017
4 min

FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES (Part 2)

Leadership of FBATR In every organization, in every community, and in every society leadership is needed to set a course. Leadership transcends sectors. Interestingly, Webster defines a leader is a primary or terminal shoot of a plant. The plant perishes without its terminal shoot - leader. In like manner, an organization without a leader or a leader trapped by rules will die. The great managers described by FBATR despite the rules know how to work within their respective fra

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FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES (Part 1)

Oct 16, 2017
4 min

FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES (Part 1)

After reading the book, First, Break all the Rules (FBATR), one could easily assume the proclivity to go out and do just as the book says; break all the rules. The introduction feeds this idea by saying great managers are revolutionaries (Buckingham & Coffman, 1999). In the reality of public and private organizations breaking all the rules would not be the right thing to do. FBATR focused primarily on leadership as one who must be able to select for talent, define right outco

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ETHICS (Part 3)

Oct 9, 2017
2 min

ETHICS (Part 3)

Can the leader or should the leader avoid politics; of course not. Politics places an economic value on the evaluations being done. If people begin to bargain and negotiate based on a particular action, one can deduce that significant rewards are attached to the outcome of the evaluation. Politics is woven into the fabric of evaluation. Conversely, Russ-Eft & Preskill describe several conditions that would qualify an evaluation for a politics free zone. The conditions are as

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ETHICS (Part 2)

Oct 3, 2017
4 min

ETHICS (Part 2)

The Evaluation Process “By looking closely at the word evaluation, you will see the word value embedded in it (Russ-Eft & Preskill, 2001).” The noun "value" comes from the Latin “valere” meaning to be strong, or of value. The word has carried the meaning of "worth" of someone or something for centuries. Today the word "value" conveys the "worth" of something in an economic sense. The very nature of evaluation is a value statement. This begs the next question, who’s values do

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