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Father’s Day 2019 and Quintessential Leadership The first quintessential leader I ever knew and the one I knew best was my father. A man of integrity, intelligence, and wisdom, my dad was also one of the most humble, caring, and generous people who ever walked the earth.
Got Millennials? Watch This.
Got Millennials? Watch This.
This video I’m including here is called The Millennial Question, but, in fact, some of the deeper issues raised here may have infiltrated all of lives because of our ubiquitous access to technology. (more…)
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John McCain: A Striving-to-Be Quintessential Leader
John McCain, United States Senator from Arizona, died on August 25, 2018, a little more than a year after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive, and always fatal, type of brain cancer.
Senator McCain’s life could have been much different then it turned out to be. He grew up in a very elite and privileged world, and one that afforded him the opportunity, if he chose, to live for…
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Book Review of "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success" by Megan McArdle
Book Review of “The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well is the Key to Success” by Megan McArdle
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Overall, this was a pretty good book. McArdle makes a good case for all the reasons why learning to fail well makes us more successful in the long run (a big reason is all those lessons we should – and if we don’t, then we’ve failed at failing – learn from falling flat on our faces). (more…)
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The Quintessential Leadership Traits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Quintessential Leadership Traits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As today – January 16, 2017 – marks the United States’ federal observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday (Dr. King’s actual birth date was January 15, 1929), it is a good time to review some of the quintessential leadership traits that Dr. King possessed and that we should be looking for and developing in our own quintessential leadership journeys. (more…)
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Are We Quintessential Leader Pretenders?
Are We Quintessential Leader Pretenders?
The lack of a synchronized life of imitable authenticity among humans – and people in leadership positions – in what they say, who they are, and how they conduct every part of their lives is bemoaned almost constantly.
The reality is that what we do observe is an abundance of synchronized lives of not-to-be-imitated authenticity, more so now than ever before.
We now live in a society where…
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What Quintessential Leadership Looks Like: Taking AND Staying on the High Road
What Quintessential Leadership Looks Like: Taking AND Staying on the High Road
Taking the high road is an idiom that describes a person who is consistently making the conscious choice to travel exclusively on the highest moral and ethical ground, regardless of what anyone else and everybody else is doing.
Taking the high road also characterizes a person who unwaveringly chooses to endeavor to do the right thing all the time, no matter what the circumstances.
Taking the…
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The Quintessential Leader Perspective on the Process of Team-Building
The Quintessential Leader Perspective on the Process of Team-Building
Team-building consists of four distinct steps: recruiting, interviewing, assessing, and hiring. A flawed approach in any one of these steps will, at the least, severely derail the process, and, at the worst, stop it altogether.
Modern team-building has become an increasingly-frustrating, long and drawn out, and very unsatisfying process for both organizations and potential team members. Much of…
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