Lessons in Leadership

Reading can take you anywhere you want to go – a million miles away without ever moving a foot. It can provide the opportunity to be in situations, places, people, and conditions that you’ve never experienced before. It can describe problems similar to your own and offer unique processes, choices and solutions. Reading allows us to continue learning at any time, at any age, and in any place. But what do we learn by reading? Reading offers us the opportunities to disconnect from the usual and routine to experience and create something different, to discover new ideas by considering alternative views, and to skillfully navigate the range of emotions throughout life’s inevitable ups and downs.  Are these not skills needed by today’s leader?   But don’t take my word for it. When CEOs average reading about 4-5 books a month, consider the success achieved by these leaders: Bill Gates  reads about 50 books a year. Mark Cuban   reads more than 3 hours ...

"Learning and innovation go hand in hand.  The arrogance of success  is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow."   -William Pollard As the quote above implies, continuous learning is a requirement to just keep up with the amount of change occurring in business, regardless of the industry. Our company core values reflect the importance that we place on education and its role in innovation. We live by what we teach. Throughout 2016, we vigorously pursued our own professional development to “sharpen the saw” and provide value to our clients by ensuring that our existing knowledge does not grow stale. Cara and I became certified facilitators of Ken Blanchard Companies First-Time Manager and Situational Team Leadership programs. Cara completed these two certifications in addition to completing her 2L year in law school. I continued my 2016 “sharpening of the saw” with two additional certifications, Blanchard’s Leading People Through Change ...