“It might look and seem beautiful and calm; there is a significant difference in ineffective leadership, lack of leadership, and leadership that is in stasis.”
Joe Thornell Sr.
All three leadership situations are damaging to the organization and the people. Ineffective leadership shows some attempt at leading, however for any number of reasons, there is an inability to make things happen. A lack of leadership is typically recognized as having the capability to lead but not doing anything effective for the organization or the people.
Leadership stasis is not doing anything effective as you lead the organization and allowing its reputation to be tarnished and potentially pushing it towards destruction.… Read the rest
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. -Harry S. Truman
“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”
We sat in the Officer’s Club at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho: three lieutenants with cold beers in hand trying to impress each other with the hours we were working. It was a perverse matter of pride for us–and lots of others at the time–to brag about the amount of time we were working. Bragging about children’s birthdays missed, anniversaries spent away, and late nights was a badge of honor.… 
“The single most important element of success in war is leadership.”
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