by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 14, 2016 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
Imagine you’re giving a presentation tomorrow to a group of your organization’s top decision makers. Your job will be to persuade them to approve, and invest in, a new initiative you’ve worked over a year to develop. Heading into the meeting, you’re convinced you have...
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 | Feb 28, 2013 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung I recently learned that the leadership-training curriculum at Google places a heavy...
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...
