My guest is Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Craig Whelden, who I’ve known for many years. He’s the author of “Leadership: The Art of Inspiring People to Be Their Best” (https://craigwhelden.com/buy-the-book/). The topic of our conversation is one of our Big 6 Leadership Principles®: “Do the Right Thing When No One is Looking.” We also discuss the … Read more
“Only the paranoid survive.” – attributed to Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel Happy New Year! Here comes 2021, and we are rolling into it with all kinds of weird aspects of life continuing from the nightmarish year we experienced in 2020. In addition to an insidious pandemic, there is stress everywhere you look. Unemployment … Read more
I didn’t always understand what a great culture looks like. In fact, as a young West Point cadet and later as an Army officer, I only had a vague notion of what a culture was at all. We had a set way of doing things, to be sure, but it was pretty much taken for … Read more
Over the past few months, COVID-19 has created historic disruptions and changes to the way we work and live – on a local, regional, national, and even international scale. Our challenge as leaders is to continue to apply the appropriate adaptive leadership skills in order to lead our teams and organizations from the front. Let’s … Read more
“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.” – Rudyard Kipling OK, here we go – another message on how we all work too much, where we promote a culture where working is 90% of what we should be doing 24/7 if we’re going to be successful. Otherwise, our peers … Read more
What thought have you put into setting the azimuth for your company or organization? In this Two-Minute Leadership video blog, I’ll discuss the Leadership Principle of the Azimuth. Before you can properly set your azimuth, however, understanding what an azimuth means in a leadership context is necessary. Your company’s azimuth is its true north, the … Read more
