by George Goens | Aug 2, 2012 | Leadership
Graduate schools teach about leadership in a vacuous, antiseptic manner divorced from the personal relationships and the intangible connections that leaders face. Lessons become exercises in engineering as if leaders just place the proper procedure in a linear...
by George Goens | Jul 18, 2012 | Leadership
Why do you want to lead? Why did you want to assume a position of leadership? These are two fundamental questions. Is it a matter of completing a resume? Is it ego? Is it a matter of expectations – yours or others? Is it a matter of power and authority? These...
by George Goens | Jun 11, 2012 | Leadership
Why aren’t educational leaders leading by outrage today? No, I don’t mean running around with their hair on fire. It also doesn’t mean running around in a rage with a Blackberry in each hand shouting orders, commands, and insults. There’s a...
by George Goens | Mar 26, 2012 | Leadership
We view great leaders from the rear view mirror of history presented in rational, pristine scenarios without the fury of the emotion of the times. These leaders were some of the most maligned because they lived in the eye of the storm: Lincoln, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt,...
by George Goens | Mar 14, 2012 | Leadership
Fear stalks leaders. For many of us, our self-concept is directly tied to our professional performance — our work and meeting our responsibilities and obligations. We perceive a fearsome, dog-eat-dog world in which we need to protect ourselves from errors and...
by George Goens | Mar 5, 2012 | Leadership
Fear is a word seldom used in the same breath with leadership. They don’t seem to fit together. Leaders do not admit to fear: that sinking, fluttering feeling when confidence quakes, raising hidden, quiet anxiety and its paralyzing cousin doubt. In reality, however,...
