by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 11, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
Each week in these posts, I present examples of how leading from the heart has the effect of inspiring extraordinary engagement and productivity. It’s my fundamental belief, of course, that leadership fails when it’s over-influenced by the mind and the heart is not...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 7, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
In my most recent professional role, I was in charge of nationwide sales leadership for nearly 1,000 stock brokers – aka investment product sales representatives. Prior to this position, I spent a large part of my career managing in Washington Mutual’s retail bank and...
by Mark C. Crowley | Nov 23, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership
During the time I was writing Lead From The Heart, I was invited to play in a charity golf tournament with some of my former work colleagues. Our pairings were pre-assigned and I ended up riding in a golf cart with Jed – an often prickly fellow who once worked for me....
by Mark C. Crowley | Nov 16, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
We learned not long ago that a dear family friend, Rachel, had taken her own life. The news, as you might imagine, was immediately shocking and devastating to all who knew and loved her – a married woman who’d devoted much of her life to raising her son and daughter...
by Mark C. Crowley | Nov 9, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
During the eulogy he gave for his father, Senator Ted Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, Jr. recalled a day shortly after losing a leg to cancer when his dad invited him to go sledding on their steep, snow-covered driveway. Following his first reluctant ride down the...