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Leading by Example with Flames of Giving
Almost two decades ago. Sari was looking for ways to make her children more aware of and more connected with the community around them. She knew there were others in need. She wanted her children to understand “that people in need are everywhere and you can do something to make a difference.”
So she called some local agencies that connected her and her children with people in need. They wrote up “little flames” with information about the people in need and recruited their friends and neighbors to donate gifts. That year, they collected and distributed 40 gifts.
The next year, her children asked if they could do it again. And a movement began.
Kim Jong Un’s Challenges in Taking Over the Family Business (North Korea)
In taking over a family business, you must map beyond what you can easily see and choose your timing very carefully.
Follow the Money to Understand What Happened at Last Week’s European Summit
Leading different groups through a crisis together requires a shared purpose. You must find the common ground across different groups to have a hope of getting people aligned around a common approach. This could be a common, shared goal. Or it could be a common, shared desire to do good for someone else.
The Next First (and Only) 100 Days
Cover of Franklin D. Roosevelt In his recent New York Times column, The Next First (and Only) 100 Days, Thomas Friedman makes the point that Since F.D.R., we’ve measured presidents by their “first 100 days.” But now it’s really “the only...
Lessons from The Animal School Fable in Leveraging Strengths
It’s a lesson we learn over and over again. Most of us are unbalanced. We are relatively stronger in one area than another. There is a great temptation to fix ourselves or others by investing time to improve the areas that are relatively less strong. But that’s not the way forward.
The better approach is to invest time to improve the areas that are already relatively strong, and find ways to compensate for the gaps. That could be leveraging technology or partnering with someone else. If you are relatively weak at managing operational details, partner with a strong chief operating officer. If you are relatively weak at dealing with people’s problems and issues, partner with a strong chief human resource officer. If you are relatively weak at coming up with strategies, partner with a strong chief strategy officer.
Expanding our Global Footprint: New Partners and Alliances
We are thrilled to announce the additions of Roger Neill and Thomas Yang as partners, and new alliances in China and India. Roger will be based in London and concentrate on Europe. Thomas will focus on Asia, working with our new allies Allen...
Leadership Lessons in Real Time – Merkel and Sarkozy
There are important things to be learned from how Europe's leaders manage through their debt crisis. We titled the new appendix in the 3rd edition of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan "Leading through a crisis" because crises change...
How Merkel Can Lead the Euro Zone Out of Crisis
This is the moment for German Chancellor Angela Merkel to choose to take up the mantle of European leadership …or not.
It must be tempting for her to let things unfold as they might for the rest of Europe. She knows that many of the other 16 members of the euro zone are enduring and will endure a great deal of pain. And staying out of the fray is a way to delay pain in Germany.
But the euro zone’s pain will be Germany’s pain eventually. And it’s looking more and more like the later people take their medicine, the worse the pain will be in the end. A system built on a common currency without a corresponding common fiscal policy and tools is as untenable as four people driving a single car in which each person has their own steering wheel, attached to their own one of the four tires, trying to steer their own route.
The only long-term solution is to fix the system. Over the short term, it may be possible to coordinate actions across the different parties to increase liquidity, but over time, monetary and fiscal efforts must be aligned. The euro zone must either sever the monetary piece and go back to separate currencies or merge the fiscal piece.
Supercommittee Classic Level Three Failure in Decision Making
The United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction would have had to publish its plan yesterday to meet the vote deadline of tomorrow. They did not. It's not really a surprise. Few expected them to be able to overcome...
On-Boarding Starts Before Recruitment
Outlook Business India just published an interview they did with me when I was there last month. They did a nice job of working through much of the big blocks of onboarding (or on-boarding) as they call it. Click here to read the full interview. India...