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 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 | 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...
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 16, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“There is no wisdom like frankness.” Benjamin Disraeli As an English literature major in college, my professors routinely asked me to write several-pages-long analyses of books they earlier had assigned me to read. The goal of these...
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...
