by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 14, 2016 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
“Fortune favors the bold.” Virgil (70-19 BC) There’s a great tendency in the month of December to wind things down. With the holiday season upon us, and the least amount of sunlight of the year around to energize us, we’re influenced to work in slow motion. We...
by Mark C. Crowley | Jun 25, 2014 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” – William Gibson A close friend and former colleague of mine recently advised me to “go easy” on my use of the expression “lead from the heart.” Fully aware that I’d written a book...
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...