Abstract: Leaders are always looking forward, and keeping their followers occupied doing the same. Leaders don’t pick fights because fights draw attention away from forward motion. They seek to keep as much energy directed forward as possible. But when a fight is inevitable, leaders fight to win.
From the monthly archives:
December 2007
I heard today on NPR that the global drug trade is worth more than the entire global auto industry. It struck me that while we here in the states can’t get a law passed to raise the fuel economy on cars (and the EPA just denied a waiver to California, blocking that states efforts to [...]
…it takes me two hours to get a full read on a person, and Rich had me nailed in a New York minute. He spent 6 minutes opening me up, and then with one question he got everything he needed to know…
“You’re not Glenn?s son, are you?” “Yes, I am.” Smile. “Have been my whole life.” “Oh! He’s the best, we love him around here. You have to let him know we’re all thinking about him!” This was the conversation I had the other morning with the cashier at a local family restaurant that I rarely [...]
Once upon a time, there was a mighty nation. So powerful was its military, its economic, and its political muscle that its rule could be–and was–exported the world over, regardless of the willingness of the importer. The nation had many far-flung interests, some directly under its control and others in a more of a “sovereign-but-depedent” [...]
The more I work with young professionals in addition to executives, the more fascinated I am by the generation gap. Personally, this is the first time in my career when there has been a defined generation younger than me… and while in some ways I can relate to Millennials better than Gen X–which maybe isn’t [...]
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