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 30, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
“It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.” Proverbs What’s the biggest obstacle that gets in the way of people and prevents them from becoming truly effective leaders? Ken Blanchard,...
by Mark C. Crowley | Sep 23, 2012 | Leadership, Life Lessons
“It’s not how well you perform in your summers that will define your success in life, it’s how well you do in your winters.” Jim Roan Around 9:00 P.M. on Labor Day night, I headed back to my bedroom with a plan of...
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...