Entries Tagged as 'Crisis Management'

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Bad Leadership

There are plenty of books and quite a few blogs that focus on good leadership. They talk about what needs to be done and when, they discuss decision making, strategy, team building and collaboration. But what about bad leadership? It seems that when it comes to bad leadership, there is very little to be found.
However, [...]

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Choosing the Urgent over the Important

Every person must make choices in their lives. These choices may be monumental or insignificant, they may be personal or they may be professional; but every day, our choices and our decisions measure in the thousands.
Consider for a moment, the most mundane of tasks — having breakfast. Think through your process of decision making. You [...]

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Maintaining The Momentum in Tough Times

In good times, it is rather easy to keep employees motivated to “ride the wave.”  This goes without saying.  However, business leaders are not hired to lead only during good times.  In fact, true leadership reveals itself in times of difficulty.  Martin Luther King Jr. put this perspective into great words when he stated, “The [...]

Friday, March 21st, 2008

What Leaders Can Learn from Britney

Britney’s brain is toxic
Originally uploaded by bowbrick
She is in the airport lounge. She is in the inflight magazine. When you walk past the duty free store there are perfumes. There is music and there are film clips. And she is all over the newspapers and magazine racks. Let’s face it, no matter how busy you [...]