Month: December 2017

Cowardly Leadership will return on January 2, 2018.  Enjoy the holidays!

Happy Anniversary to Cowardly Leadership! [caption id="attachment_627" align="alignright" width="143"] Happy 1st Anniversary to Cowardly Leadership![/caption] Sixty-five posts ago, with It's What You Do After You Get There, Cowardly Leadership-Up Close and Personal was launched.  The week before Christmas may, or may not, have been the best timing, but it is when the opportunity and subjects were available. Subject Matter As I've written about over the past year, I have worked directly for two cowardly leaders in my career.  These are people who are in positions of power and authority, but are not Leaders and therefore are always referred to as lower case leaders.   Cowardly leaders are in positions of authority in all walks of life.  Since my background has been primarily in local government, I have focused my personal observations to those that, also, work…

Full Disclosure- the idea for this and some of the material herein is borrowed from James Altucher, whom I quote regularly here at Cowardly Leadership-Up Close and Personal.  This material is from his posting 10 Reasons Your Boss Hates You here 6 Reasons Your Boss is Incompetent 1.  You're More Qualified At the local government level, which is the platform I use since it's the profession I worked in for 30+ years, many people in senior positions are there for the wrong reasons.  Now, without question, the majority of colleagues I worked with at the department head level were smart, dedicated, talented, and creative.  Many of them were game-changers.  But at the level above them are the elected officials and appointed officials.    And just as often, the majority of them are in their…

Disciplines cowardly leaders don't practice-So You Should! Sergeant Major Dailey is an E9- the very highest ranking an enlisted member of the U.S. Army can attain.  So he's been around, has shown excellent leadership over his career, and knows a few things.  He wrote a "Top 10 to Sergeants Major" Army-wide, so I'm borrowing significant points and broadening it for use by leaders anywhere. Set The Example If you’re not out there saluting the flag  and performing PT (Physical Training, i.e. running) every morning at 6:30, you can automatically assume your soldiers are not. Soldiers don’t care if you’re in first place. They just want to see you out there. This is a team sport. Moral:  Same goes with any employee anywhere.  Set the example.  Be the first in to the office-…