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 | Sep 16, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“There is no wisdom like frankness.” Benjamin Disraeli As an English literature major in college, my professors routinely asked me to write several-pages-long analyses of books they earlier had assigned me to read. The goal of these...
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 9, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“Some people say, ‘Come on, markets are not about morals, they’re about profits.” I say that is old thinking. That’s a false choice. The great companies will be the ones that find a way to have and hold on to their values while chasing profits, and brand value will...
by Mark C. Crowley | Apr 16, 2012 | Wisdom From Other Authors
“Better to be pruned to grow then cut up to burn.” John Trapp Following their harvest of apples and pears every year, Amish farmers take on the chore of pruning all the orchards. The Amish long ago...
by Mark C. Crowley | Mar 26, 2012 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership
The average Goldman Sachs employee earns in excess of $350,000 per year, and we’re assured Greg Smith, who most visibly quit his job there last week, was paid substantially more. And, in leaving his long-time employer, Smith didn’t abandon just a fat salary. To...
