by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 14, 2016 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Uncategorized, Wisdom From Other Authors
As research for an article I later wrote for Fast Company Magazine, I traveled to Google’s Mountain View, California campus, and spent the day meeting with several of their talent management executives. Within just my first hour at Google, I saw firsthand all the...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 14, 2016 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
Imagine you’re giving a presentation tomorrow to a group of your organization’s top decision makers. Your job will be to persuade them to approve, and invest in, a new initiative you’ve worked over a year to develop. Heading into the meeting, you’re convinced you have...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 14, 2016 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
“Fortune favors the bold.” Virgil (70-19 BC) There’s a great tendency in the month of December to wind things down. With the holiday season upon us, and the least amount of sunlight of the year around to energize us, we’re influenced to work in slow motion. We...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 14, 2016 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
Early one morning just a few weeks ago, I woke up with the intention of starting my day at the gym. But before I ever made it out of the house, I completely blacked out, fell on a cold travertine floor and broke my ribs. The pain from that fall was excruciating; and...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 13, 2016 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Uncategorized
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Schopenhauer It’s been nearly three years since Gallup announced its stunning finding that engagement in the American workplace had fallen to crisis levels. In what became the...
