The Language of Organizational Life
Gone are the voices. For a while I heard echoes, but these faint voices are now gone. My workplace is now quiet. There are depths of quiet that I now know. Each week the quiet grows louder and louder. Odd that this is the time of my greatest leadership challenge. I have written of my... Continue Reading →
I am thinking a lot about connections these days. How we establish meaningful connections with each other. How we maintain these connections. How fragile these connections can be in times of stress. We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our... Continue Reading →
From the great blog site, Lead.Learn.Live. David gets it and is in synch with WeMoveTogether. Leadership is connecting those threads around us.
New leadership books pour over the dam each day claiming to share a secret sauce. A cow rhythmically chewing and regurgitating its cud. But far less effective. It largely comes down to these eight lines from James Autry. Period.
Listen.
In every office
you hear the threads
of love and joy and fear and guilt,
the cries for celebration and reassurance,
and somehow you know that connecting those threads
is what you are supposed to do
and business takes care of itself.
~ James A. Autry
Source: 800CEORead – Bring Your Emotional Self to Work. The words above were written by James A. Autry and are included in Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership (p.32). And all of this reminds me of the John Maxwell quote: “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
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Baseball is back. As a lifelong fan of baseball this is a time of renewal each year and expectation for a good season for my team and for baseball in general. A year ago I wrote about this renewal (read here) and this year I have the urge to write again about baseball. Baseball, unlike... Continue Reading →
Leadership is big business. There are countless books, seminars, tweets and yes, blogs. In the course of my business day I often get emails related to the latest leadership book or upcoming seminar. A few days ago I had to laugh when I received an email invite to a "Leadership Summit". I scanned the information... Continue Reading →
Note: Each Thursday I will post a little something to inspire us to finish the week strong. These Thursday Thoughts will be a quote, piece of music, artwork, or inspirational video. Congratulations, you made it over the hump and let's finish the week together. The college basketball championship tournament is well under way here in... Continue Reading →
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