Servant Leadership & Technology
“They just don’t get it! Servant Leadership will never work here.” I hear this frustration all the time. While I disagree, particularly with the absolute of “never”, I confess it is more difficult to embed Servant Leadership in an organization that did not begin with these principles. Reasons to Start with Servant Leadership There are [...]
Executive perks tend to promote individual success over that of the organization. As a result, these perks may have opposite the desired effect. The Financial Times defines executive perk as: Something that an executive gets in addition to their salary, for example extra money based on company profits, the right to buy company shares cheaply, [...]
The corporate culture pyramid has four sides: 1. Employees: What employees believe about the culture. 2. Leaders: What the leadership team believes about the culture. 3. Corporate: What the company claims about the culture. 4. External: What external stakeholders believe about the culture. It used to be that particularly strong sides 2 and 3 could [...]
If you were an architect, there are steps you would take to build your home: choose the location, select a style and finally, design the specific structure. To architect your leadership style, you need to follow similar steps. Today, we begin by covering the selection of location. For your home, location matters. In real estate, [...]
So you’re fed up with the culture of your organization. You’ve made this much clear. Whether talking to your trusted friends within the company or your spouse and friends outside the office, you routinely complain about: How nobody cares about the people Backtabbing has become an art and Nobody knows what it means to be [...]
Much of what I practice in both leadership and technology roles, I first learned early in my career. In fact, the early years of my career formed the lens through which I view most of my professional perspectives. While I have grown, adapted and expanded many perspectives since those formative years, I was fortunate to [...]
