by Jack Lannom | August 30th, 2016 | Leadership
Our natural, human reaction to conflict was drolly expressed by an anonymous poet: In matters controversial my perception’s rather fine I always see both points of view: the one that’s wrong and mine. “You think I’m wrong?” our ego fumes. “You find me irritating?!...
by Jack Lannom | August 2nd, 2016 | Leadership
What is dignity? A quick Google search will tell you it means, “the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect”. Every human being has dignity; therefore, every human being deserves to be treated with honor and respect. I believe there is a direct societal...
by Jack Lannom | July 19th, 2016 | Leadership
One of the finest teachers in the area of metacognitive thinking was Dr. Chris Argyris, a prolific author and Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School. His work on organizational learning was unparalleled; he did a great deal to shape my own thinking on this...
by [email protected] | July 5th, 2016 | Leadership
Humility stops hubris in its tracks because humility knows that hubris does not bear the same identity as itself. I want to state at that much of what I am about to say may seem at first glance to be so obvious that it does not require this level of detailed...
by [email protected] | June 21st, 2016 | Leadership
Without humility, you won’t bring out the highest and the best in people and your hubris will frequently reduce them to their lowest and their least. And what I have seen, time and again, is that the prideful person is the last one to realize that he or she is...
by [email protected] | June 14th, 2016 | Leadership
Everything that I have done so far is to help you to think more philosophically and strategically about your organization so that you, as the leader of your company, begin to think more intentionally, deeply, and wisely about how to grow and improve your organization...