by Mark C. Crowley | May 16, 2013 | Wisdom From Other Authors
I’ve come to trust that books show up in my life for a reason. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve been in a bookstore when some internal radar system seemed to guide me down the aisles until a knowing voice insisted that I “buy that one.” The great mystery of...
by Mark C. Crowley | Apr 4, 2013 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.” Clarence Clemons One of my son’s closest friends started following me on Twitter recently, and after reading my tweets for a couple of weeks, sent along an...
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 7, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. While all on it’s own the experience was the most terrifying of my life, the people who were supposed to care about me really didn’t. Doctors, no less, made the circumstances far worse than they needed to be, and...