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 | Apr 2, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
Procrastination is the enemy of the leader…. When I was ten-years-old, I became a paperboy. Six days a week – all year long – my responsibility was to get people their papers at the same general time each day and, once a week, to knock on doors and collect my...
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...
by Mark C. Crowley | Feb 20, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
A leadership development consultant my company hired several years back had an interesting theory. It was her contention that people who hold similar or identical positions tend to be the best judges of our strengths and weaknesses. She explained that as humans, we’re...
