Part of being a leader is being decisive and confident about your decision. People lose confidence in you when you waffle for too long or too often. You can’t be a competent leader and be indecisive. Repeating the phrase ‘I don’t know” every time someone comes to you for a decision doesn’t [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Shared Experience’
April 27, 2007
Leadership Tip I Recently Learned (1)
I was thinking how much I hated meetings while walking to one of my regularly scheduled pow-wows. And then a ray of sunshine shone through the fluorescent lighting (I know this is dramatic, but work with me). My boss canceled this week’s meeting and the subsequent week’s meeting because he thought we were [...]
April 25, 2007
Integrity: part 1
Integrity was described to me once as “always doing the right thing. Even when nobody’s watching.” My first experience with the word integrity came from reading the Charles Dickens classic “Great Expectations” in middle school. The protagonist (Pip) is characterized as having integrity. I had no idea what this word meant [...]
