Friends, I recommend you watch today’s RFL, which I shared on Maria Shriver’s website last week.* I realize that many read RFL at work and may not be able to watch video, so below is a written piece which parallels the points in the video. As always I’d love your comments. It’s a three-headed … Continued
What Can You Learn About Your Leadership – What can you tell me about mine [audio:https://danmulhern.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/What-Can-You-Learn-About-Your-Leadership-What-can-you-tell-me-about-mine.mp3] Friends, I suggest two simple actions, which reverse the points in the title of this week’s Reading for Leading. First, tell me how I can improve what I do with Reading for Leading. The survey will take about 2 minutes … Continued
Friends, I’ve got three things for you today – an unbelievably crazy story, a lesson in leadership from Kouzes and Posner, and a question or two for you. Here’s the story: We go to church and Fr. Mark says that he has been to Kenya and he wants us to help. There’s an orphanage in … Continued
Trust Matters – Be Careful What They Trust You For Friends, One of my two partners asked me, “How did your program go?” She was inquiring about the year-long leadership course I had kicked off the day before with thirty school principals. Her tone was unusually serious. “Great,” I said. “They’re a super group, and the … Continued
Friends, I strongly recommend you view the video version of today’s Reading for Leading, but if you’d prefer to read, I’ve included the text below the video, as some requested. I don’t recommend a lot of books on leadership but when I do it’s because they have three things: clear ideas, usable ideas, and research-backed … Continued
Friends, I will go into battle at 8:00 AM, PST today, perhaps just after you have opened this. I shall be leading a revolution. Let me tell you the victory I seek and then the enemy(ies) I must conquer. I hope that it might help you, should you choose to lead . . . a … Continued
Friends, Timing may not be everything, but it’s SOME thing. If I had paid attention to timing…oh, if I could take back the advice I gave to a boss, my wife, or a child of mine at moments when they were incapable of hearing it as positive…If I had only have taken the risk … Continued
Friends, The great John Tenbusch, master teacher, philosopher and maybe part madman, would grit his teeth so hard you could hear the grinding from the last seat in room 214 of University of Detroit High School. Through clenched jaw he would growl, “Damn it _____ [insert terrified frosh’s name here]. I didn’t teach you that.” … Continued
Friends, [I’ll return next week to the series on the things that undermine best-self leadership. But I’ve got to stop for this awesome holiday.] Instead of a question at the end of RFL, consider this, up front: Who is the most thanks-giving person you know? Whoever that person is I’m confident you would say these … Continued
Friends, I finish every column with the line “lead with your best self.” This week I begin a mini-series with boundary-pushing ideas about doing that. They’re harder ideas, because they’re new – at least stuff I haven’t read much elsewhere – and hard because they demand more of you and me than I often suggest. … Continued