Every day I get dozens of commercial and political emails trying to sell me some product or some candidate. And often times they will use a Subject Line that suggests they are going to reveal some dirty little secrets about a competitor’s product or a different politician. I have to admit that those emails are intriguing. After all, we’d all like to …
What do the most effective leaders do?
I grew up in the Christmas tree business. Indeed, my father was a leader in the Christmas tree business. He personally planted, raised, pruned, cut, delivered, and sold hundreds of thousands of Christmas trees for 47 years. And in many ways, he was a Santa Claus leader to so many people. He hired kids, juvenile delinquents, alcoholics, and the down-and-outers that no one else …
5 Things the Best Leaders Have Going for Them
He came from nowhere and ended up … according to many … being the “man of the century. He was born in a small Polish town, living a hard life in Nazi occupied Poland. His father was a retired army officer, but his mother died early, dying of kidney and heart failure, while his older brother died from scarlet fever. …