Month: September 2017

No cowardly leadership post this week- I am in New Orleans at the NRPA National Conference.  I will be speaking on PARC Leadership, so if you're there or in town, come by and listen. Opportunities If you or your agency are interested in leadership training, leadership sessions, retreat training and facilitation or organizational review, I hope you'll give me a shout. In the meantime, let the good times roll! Next week we will talk about the 80-20 rule and how it applies to cowardly leaders. II-53

Ramblings-there is NO theme today Usually- up to this point, anyway- I've had something specific in mind as I go to write the weekly edition of Cowardly Leadership-Up Close and Personal.  But not this week.  Not that there isn't lots to write about.  Still, how many different ways can I talk about how cowardly leaders  lie, manipulate, are egotistic, full of hubris, insincere, insecure, and the many other traits they possess? So, today, there is no theme.  It's just stuff I've thought of recently. It's really NOT about Cowardly Leadership I visited with a very good and smart friend last week (that's a shout-out there, ADM Price).  He suggested something I hadn't really thought about until he brought it up (which, in a backhanded compliment kind of way, means he does read these…

As I have researched and written these Cowardly Leadership  blogs, I've discovered that regardless of position or degree of importance, cowardly leaders fall into one of two general categories:  Those that mistakenly, but sincerely, think and believe that they are "right" simply because they were elected, or appointed, to their office.  They must be correct.  Or omnipotent.  Or simply smarter than us.  Otherwise, they wouldn't have been elected or appointed. Those that couldn't care less if they are right or not.  Being right, or correct, or smart, doesn't matter.  It's all about politics and power.  They have the position so they will do what they want to do.  Additionally, they will force their employees (that is, if they want to stay employees), to do what they are told. The first group are…

Because it's Labor Day weekend and week, Cowardly Leadership-Up Close and Personal is taking today off.  However, you, dear reader, still have homework. What Do You Want? The Big 5-0.  This is the fiftieth post of the year.  We have written about a wide range of subjects- abdicating your leadership responsibilities, the lack of teamwork in a cowardly leadership setting, military leadership examples, various ways of identifying cowardly leaders, and many others. It's time to hear from you.  What do you want to read, learn, discuss? Remember that the original premise of this is cowardly leadership at the local level- the next door neighbor who is an elected official in your town.  Or, the lady you go to church with who is an appointed know-it-all due to her...well...appointment.  In other words, the "I was appointed to…