Category: Eight Leadership Practices

In my ear­li­er post on The Prac­tice of Lead­er­ship I iden­ti­fied eight prac­tices — com­mit­ments to action — that I believe can mean­ing­ful­ly shape a lead­er’s pres­ence. In eight sep­a­rate posts (not like­ly to be con­sec­u­tive) I intend to describe each of these in more detail and offer some sug­ges­tions about how to get start­ed.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Eight Lead­er­ship Practices

Recent­ly, I have begun to feel that lead­er­ship is much more about prac­tices than about com­pe­ten­cies. Man­age­ment is full of com­pe­ten­cies — tech­ni­cal ones, project man­age­ment ones, finan­cial ones, even inter­per­son­al ones. But lead­er­ship draws from deep­er waters of the soul. How would I devel­op a “com­pe­ten­cy” for hon­esty or for inspi­ra­tion or for sen­si­tiv­i­ty… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Prac­tice of Leadership