by wiadmin | Feb 3, 2021 | Leadership
There is an antique story about an old donkey who fell in the farmer’s abandoned well. Crying out, the donkey alerted the farmer who summoned his nearby neighbors to help him get the donkey out of the deep well. Their efforts proved totally fruitless. So, the...
by wiadmin | Dec 21, 2020 | Leadership
Fireside chats can generally yield surprising depth and insights. When the chat leader is a CEO and the audience includes high-potential leaders at an executive training retreat, it can be doubly poignant and powerful. Fireside chats afford a crucible for candor and a...
by wiadmin | Nov 11, 2020 | Leadership
The word “veteran” means someone who served in the military. But it also means someone who has had long experience. Service in the military does not begin as an experienced soldier but rather as an anxious, naive, and lowly recruit. A recruit has no rank,...
by wiadmin | Nov 8, 2020 | Leadership
I recently did a Zoom interview with the CEO of a high-tech company who directly or indirectly reminded me several times during our thirty-minute interview that he was the CEO. It reminded me of a doctor whom you have never met coming into your hospital room...
by wiadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Leadership
The last few months I served in Viet Nam with the elite 82nd Airborne, I served as battalion adjutant—it is like the chief administrative officer over about 1,000 soldiers. It was a relief from having served many months in heavy combat as an infantry unit officer....
by wiadmin | Sep 24, 2020 | Leadership
“You can pretend to care, you cannot pretend to be there,” wrote Texas Bix Bender in his book Don’t Squat with ‘Yer Spurs On! Bender was describing a vital feature of effective leadership—command presence. People who spend more than twenty minutes in the...
