by Bill Treasurer | Dec 11, 2013 | Courageous Leadership
In the same way you learn leadership from leaders, law from lawyers, and art from artists, you learn most about risk-taking from risk-takers. Emerson once wrote, “The great distinction between teachers sacred or literary is that one class speaks from within, or from...
by Bill Treasurer | Dec 4, 2013 | Courageous Leadership
In early 1960, Dr. Frances Kelsey was given her first assignment as a new employee with the FDA. After being on the job for only one month, she was asked to evaluate an application for a new drug by the pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell. The drug, being...
by Bill Treasurer | Nov 27, 2013 | Strategic Planning
Reward Courageous Behavior, Not Just Successful Outcomes It is important to differentiate between a successful outcome and a courageous act. Being courageous, by definition, means to take on challenges despite the potential for failure. Courageous workers do, in fact,...
by Bill Treasurer | Nov 20, 2013 | Team Building
One challenge most leaders face is how to inspire more workplace creativity. Elevating people to higher standards of performance and inspiring useful ideas requires igniting their imaginations. Open-door leaders are keen to prevent complacency and lethargy. They know...
by Bill Treasurer | Oct 23, 2013 | Personal Growth
Sometimes the best way for a leader to reveal how passionately they care about an issue is to get very, very angry. I am not suggesting that a leader should use anger to intimidate people. Quite the contrary. The kind of anger I’m speaking of often enlists people to...
