Tag: transformational leadership

advice for graduates

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Oh, the pride and privilege of our youth. I’m certain that Shakespeare and our mothers warned us about such things. Yes, let us be clear that we never knew as much as we knew when we were 17. For those of us who are a bit older now and only somewhat wiser, it really is a great honor and blessing to celebrate with young people and join in the great pomp and ceremony that accompanies graduates everywhere. If I could get their attention even for a moment (which is unlikely), I would offer a bit of advice. I would ask them to slow down, to take in these final few moments and experience them in slow motion, to imbibe the wonderful trappings around them with…

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leadership, dream, innovate

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I hope one day to be counted among the doers. I wish the same for you. Not among the thinkers or the sayers or the maybe-one-dayers. Certainly not among the meeting-callers or the know-it-allers or the complainers or the blamers or the things-were-better-back-in-the-dayers. Though each of these quick-to-be-naysayers are not unwise in keeping the trend-setters, go-getters, and all-in-bettors from diving in so quickly as to end up all-wetters or in-over-their-headers. Still, whatever happened to the true-believers and the I’ll-follow-you-anywhere leaders? Why does it seem that we have so many in leadership positions who are don’t-rock-the-boaters or painful-to-watch-self-promoters, and so few honest-to-God-game-changers? Where in the world are the soulful-innovators? Where are the self-less initiators and the let’s-go-for-it-risk-takers? And why do they always seem to get shouted…

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