This week I want to wrap up a three-blog survey of the book Launching a Leadership Revolution by Brady and Woodword (2006).  The book was a good read and I enjoyed the reinforcement it gave me regarding my style and many of the ways I lead the people entrusted to me.  We began by talking […]

Last week I introduced you to a book I just finished reading, Launching a Leadership Revolution by Brady and Woodward (2006), and I stated that this book is a treasury of solid leadership principles which we all can apply to our own leadership development.  In last week’s blog I highlighted one of the themes from […]

If you’ve read my blog for long, you have heard me say many times “leaders are readers” and even more often you have seen me cite writers of the books which I have read.  My best friend knows how committed I am to being a life-long learner and to reading books which help me grow […]

In the book Total Leadership (2008), Stewart Friedman states, “Leaders invent themselves by continually learning; it’s an ongoing process.”  Heifetz, Grashow, and Linsky wrote in their book, The Practice of Adaptive Leadership (2009), “Being open to learning is a critical capacity for anyone seeking to enable their organizations to adapt.  People at all levels in […]

Over the last few weeks we’ve been discussing the value of creating a participatory style of leadership, where members of the team at all levels of influence have a voice in how the organization will work to fulfill its shared mission.   Last week I introduced the first two of what I call “collaborative principles of […]