On Leading Well

Innovation is one of our biz culture’s buzzwords today, but is it overrated? More accurately, is our typical understanding of the term leading us astray? Innovation simply means the bringing of something new. Sometimes that something new is a killer app or product. More often, meaningful innovation occurs when we eliminate unnecessary steps in a […]

Practicing the art of leadership is far more than the ability to constantly balance the well-known tension between inspiring people and getting tasks accomplished. In today’s highly networked institutions, successful leaders seem less like outstanding visionary personalities and more like symphony conductors that can extract greatness from many individual talents to produce meaningful, moving harmony. True artists create beautiful or significant things through superior skill and sensitivity acquired by study, practice and observation of others in their field. Great artists know when to select the right tool (or words, approach, person, instrument or color palette) to achieve their desired outcome.