On a Harvard Business Review blog, I found a leadership report for the nation’s most important leader, President Obama. Norm Smallwood lays out five rules that any leader can be measured on to assess a leader’s effectiveness. The five rules are a part of his co-authored book called The Leadership Code, here they are: Rule… [Read more…]
January 20, 2010
On a previous post I wrote about how being an expert doesn’t necessarily make you the best leader. But what if you’re the leader of the team AND the go-to-person on your team? Sportswriter Bill Simmons wrote a great article today on how one athlete is handling it and doing it well. Check out the article… [Read more…]
January 12, 2010
Values are a tricky thing. You can tell yourself and others that you value something, but if your actions don’t reflect it, it really doesn’t matter to you. For example, if you say that you value saving money, but your savings account has the amount in it as it did five years ago, you probably… [Read more…]
January 11, 2010
After a long hiatus on the blogosphere, I’m finally ready to unveil my new rebranded blog. The new hour9 blog will be more specifically focused on providing reading material for leaders, like myself, who are either starting their careers in leadership or desiring to obtain some concrete tools or skills to take them to the next level.… [Read more…]
January 25, 2010
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