by Mark C. Crowley | Feb 8, 2014 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.“ ~ Albert Schweitzer Introduction: Through a series of fascinating studies, Harvard-trained social scientists, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, have shown that human beings...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 9, 2013 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” – Yogi Berra Directly or indirectly, the common theme expressed in everything I write is that our traditional ways of leading people in the workplace are failing. We’ve seen employee engagement fall precipitously...
by Mark C. Crowley | Oct 14, 2013 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.” –J. P. Morgan In the early part of this past summer, Gallup released its “State of the...
by Mark C. Crowley | Jun 30, 2013 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.” – Deepak Chopra Just before my book,...
by Mark C. Crowley | Feb 28, 2013 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung I recently learned that the leadership-training curriculum at Google places a heavy...