by Mark C. Crowley | Apr 16, 2012 | Wisdom From Other Authors
“Better to be pruned to grow then cut up to burn.” John Trapp Following their harvest of apples and pears every year, Amish farmers take on the chore of pruning all the orchards. The Amish long ago...
by Mark C. Crowley | Apr 9, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what’s is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Many years ago, I spent the day with the CEO of the bank where I worked, and asked him to...
by Mark C. Crowley | Mar 26, 2012 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership
The average Goldman Sachs employee earns in excess of $350,000 per year, and we’re assured Greg Smith, who most visibly quit his job there last week, was paid substantially more. And, in leaving his long-time employer, Smith didn’t abandon just a fat salary. To...
by Mark C. Crowley | Mar 21, 2012 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership
There is something in the pang of change. More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. Euripides Just one day after Goldman Sachs’ employee, Greg Smith, quit his job last week, more than three million people had read his über-public resignation...
by Mark C. Crowley | Mar 5, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
Whenever I’m speaking to a large business group, I ask everyone to play a made-up game we call, “We Know That Boss!” In my most exaggerated game-show announcer voice, (think Family Feud) I call out a few characteristics of a particularly onerous manager, and then quiz...
