Set Them Up For Success
What do good leaders do? Help their followers succeed. Simple enough to remember. Not so easy to execute. As a leader, what do you put in place so your people succeed? Do you provide them tools so that they can swim? If they start to flounder, do you help them? Or do you criticize and […]
A Simple Bowl of Fruit
by Joseph DiCenso The other day I happened to hear Terry Gross interview chef and restaurant owner Alice Waters–not the Alice of “Alice’s Restaurant”, but a contemporary, and sort of the west coast version, of that Alice. Both came on the scene in the seventies and strove to present food that was local and in-season. Alice Waters started Chez Panisse, one of the most renowned eateries in the country, where the...
The Tedium of Coaching
Stuart Walkley presents this article in the Training Journal on”The Tedium of Coaching,” in which he laments “an industry with a low entry point on qualifications and experiences, no single system of accreditation and with a range from the totally exceptional to the totally inept all under the one word ‘coach,’” and further mentions that […]
EVOLVING SYSTEMS: What role do you occupy?
by Jonathan Gilburg – reprinted with permission from Gilburg Leadership Incorporated So my dad, Alan Gilburg, went down to “Occupy Wall Street” last week to “Support those kids.” As he has often done in my life, he got me thinking about what was happening with this Movement. I believe we are witnessing an important shift between an older, dying system and a new, yet to be fully defined system. What brings...