by Mark C. Crowley | Feb 3, 2013 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Peter Drucker As many of you know, I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO of the...
by Mark C. Crowley | Jan 6, 2013 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
After working out this morning at my gym, I walked into the locker room and overheard one of my friends, Joe, tell another exerciser that he’d grown up on a dairy farm. Instinctively recalling a New York Times article that reported, “Cows, when given names, produce...
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 | 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...
