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Twitter for Beginners | Getting Started
Now that you have a Twitter account, what should you do next? Who to Follow Chances are, you have some friends or colleagues on Twitter already. Ask around the office or your neighborhood, or post on Facebook to let your friends know that you are tweeting. You can...
Twitter for Beginners | Why Twitter?
Not long ago I helped lead a webinar about Twitter for Mountain State University's recruiters. As Twitter gains popularity — some estimates from last year say 10,000 new users per day — we as a university community are exploring how we can use this new tool to reach...
Come Out Standing Tall
In less than a week, my family is heading out for a much needed vacation. Next weekend we'll be staying near Beckley, WV so I can attend my 20th (gulp) high school reunion. We're also meeting up with some extended family. I enjoy planning for and anticipating a trip...
Tony Morgan’s Leadership Continuum
Tony Morgan, the author of Killing Cockroaches and Other Scatter Musings On Leadership, has a useful paradigm for understanding the necessary shift in leadership styles as organizations change and grow. His ideas are outlined here. Although Morgan focuses largely on...
Empowering Leaders: Hand Over Your Keys
No one likes a backseat driver. You know, the one who hands you the keys and then proceeds to nag you at every turn, correcting and directing you throughout the trip? Tony Morgan says if you are going to let someone drive, you also need to let them decide how to get...
Killing Cockroaches Tour
Sometimes it seems easier to do the real work in our organizations ourselves. The time it takes to show someone else how to do something — and the time required to follow up to make sure the task is done well — just doesn't seem worth the payoff. Unless we start,...
Is Patience a Leadership Competency?
Mary Jo Asmus has been getting a terrific response to her recent blog post, "Is Kindness a Leadership Competency?" — especially on Twitter. The post is one of her finest, and to quote her Twitter friends, Mary Jo really struck a chord with the idea that kindness is an...
Leadership at all Levels: Continental Airlines
Last Friday night, I arrived at the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport with my three young daughters. A friend had called me earlier in the day to alert me to bad weather at home in Chicago. After two weeks away from home, I was only slightly discouraged to find...
Dads as Leaders | A Daughter’s View: Christin Roesler
For a man, there’s no better career move in the world than earning the title of Father. Joe Kelly from Dads and Daughters The idea that fathering is the most important avenue for a dad's leadership and influence has been repeated throughout this Father's Day series....
Dads as Leaders | Life Without Dad
My oldest daughter, Cami, will be eight next month. She loves her Dad. Sometimes they go out together for a run/bike ride: he runs, she rides. They go out on special Daddy/daughter dates to his favorite flea market, to the book store, or on simple errands. She has a...
Dads as Leaders | Steve Roesler
Steve Roesler has spent his adult life leading and influencing others. After his days as a drill sergeant in the Army, the years he spent as a manager at Pfizer, and his extensive graduate studies, Steve decided start his own company. For the past 30 years, he has...
Dads as Leaders | Introduction
Recently on Twitter, several people linked to the same article on BusinessWeek, "Leadership: Intentional Influence." The author, Joseph Grenny, outlined the difficulty that some leaders have both defining leadership and understanding and exerting their influence. One...