How well do you know yourself? How objective, really, are you about yourself? How rational is your assessment of yourself? How well do you understand what others think of you, how they perceive you, how you come across to them, what emotions and thoughts you trigger in them, what they say behind your back? How …
Author Archives: jpierre
Vision – Let’s go deeper.
This blog about leadership is inspired by, and often directly lifted from Peter Koestenbaum’s book: Leadership, The Inner Side of Greatness. The impact the book had on my life, and leadership, was magnified by discussions in a class I took at St. Thomas University, and of course, many great examples of leadership in my own …
4 Strategies of Leadership, and 4 Supporting Tactics
The measurement of Leadership is the size of a diamond bounded by the 4 principles: Vision, Reality, Ethics, and Courage. Not only size, but the shape of the diamond is also critical; as we covered in the previous blog, it is important not to have a “collapsed mind.” Let’s dive a little deeper into this …
Continue reading “4 Strategies of Leadership, and 4 Supporting Tactics”
A Picture of Greatness
In the last blog, I made the claim that it is possible to measure greatness. In this blog, I hope to help you visualize greatness. Let me be clear – these are not my ideas, but are copied from Koestenbaum’s book Leadership, The Inner Side of Greatness. Per Koestenbaum’s Leadership Diamond model, the picture of …
Measuring the Greatness of a Leader
In the first blog of this series, I asked the question: “Is it possible to learn leadership?” Some insight came from 2 different perspectives: “looking at” and “looking along.” I believe there are many books and people teaching from the “looking at” perspective. In the second blog, I “looked at” leadership, compared it to management, …
Looking Along Leadership
In the first blog of this series, I differentiated between “looking at” and “looking along.” Both are valid perspectives, and both are important to understand the true essence of a thing. In the second blog, I quickly “looked at” leadership, and gave several metaphors for what leadership looks like, and why it is needed today. …
First, Looking AT Leadership
Leadership is critically important, now more than ever. A leadership metaphor: When my grandmother passed away, she could remember life before radio, refrigeration, movies with sound, cars, television, computers, microwave ovens, personal computers, internet, cellular phones… To say that the world has changed in the last 100 years would be a dramatic understatement. We have …
Looking Along Vs Looking At Leadership
Is it possible to teach leadership? More importantly, how does one learn leadership? MOST importantly, if I learn leadership, will it make me a leader? From one of my favorite authors, C. S. Lewis, I found some insight into this question. Looking along and looking at I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The …
Coming Soon!
I am looking forward to a place that I can record my musings, and give back!