by Mark C. Crowley | Jan 25, 2012 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
Here’s the scenario: You’ve just picked up the latest Fortune Magazine – the one which features it’s annual listing of America’s “100 Best Company’s To Work For.” As you review the list, you’re not too terribly surprised to see that Google now ranks number one and...
by Mark C. Crowley | Jan 18, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
For an entire year, Gretchen Rubin devoted her life to the study of personal happiness. She picked twelve important areas of human existence (such as marriage, work, parenting) and, one-month-at-a-time, committed herself to increasing her happiness in each of them....
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 14, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned about leadership is how amazingly well employees perform when they’re united as a team and committed to a shared mission. Several years ago, I was leading a region of 30 bank branches that had been consistently high achieving....
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 7, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
I have a twin brother and, as ten-year-old kids, we made a firm agreement: whoever made it into the TV room first got to pick which shows we watched. More often than not, we enjoyed a lot of the same programs – Superman, the Three Stooges and Bugs Bunny cartoons. But...