by Mark C. Crowley | Jan 2, 2012 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ~ Plato Leaders beware: the first week of January is a tough time for a lot of people at work. Your employees are returning to their jobs with fond memories of vacations and holiday celebrations...
by Mark C. Crowley | Dec 11, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons
Each week in these posts, I present examples of how leading from the heart has the effect of inspiring extraordinary engagement and productivity. It’s my fundamental belief, of course, that leadership fails when it’s over-influenced by the mind and the heart is not...
by Mark C. Crowley | Nov 16, 2011 | Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Wisdom From Other Authors
We learned not long ago that a dear family friend, Rachel, had taken her own life. The news, as you might imagine, was immediately shocking and devastating to all who knew and loved her – a married woman who’d devoted much of her life to raising her son and daughter...
by Mark C. Crowley | Oct 5, 2011 | Current Affairs, Heart Leadership In Practice, Leadership, Life Lessons, Wisdom From Other Authors
I had coffee with an old friend this week and, by the end of our conversation, I had the content for this week’s post. My friend, Kelsey, was a human resources manager when I first met her 30 years ago. Sitting across from her in her office one afternoon, I endured...