by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 2, 2012 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
On a crisp and sunny afternoon at his cabin on Skaneateles Lake in upstate New York, internationally-renown business leadership expert, Ken Blanchard, surprises me by taking frequent and sudden breaks in the midst of the interview we’ve just begun. He affectionately...
by Mark C. Crowley | Nov 14, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder A Note To Readers: When you reach the end of this blog, I will have an assignment for you. Now, while I believe the task I’ll...
by Mark C. Crowley | Oct 28, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” Rumi, 13th Century When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break...
by Mark C. Crowley | Oct 14, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“Dig up all the information you can, then go with your instincts. We all have a certain intuition, and the older we get, the more we trust it… I use my intellect to inform my instinct. Then I use my instinct to test all this data. ‘Hey, instinct, does this sound...
by Mark C. Crowley | Oct 7, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. While all on it’s own the experience was the most terrifying of my life, the people who were supposed to care about me really didn’t. Doctors, no less, made the circumstances far worse than they needed to be, and...