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Tag Archives: Leadership
Leadership
Thanks to my brother for sending me the link to Ken Robinson on the Principles of Creative Leadership on the Fast Company website. The best piece of it: The role of a creative leader is not to have all the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Emergent Order, Experimentation, Leadership, Markets
Tagged Fast Company, Felix Dennis, Leadership, Leadership development, Management
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Manage the right outputs
I believe one secret of good leadership is rewarding and punishing the right outputs, or results. Bad leaders tend to fixate on inputs and/or the wrong results. For example, a business owner complained to me about one of his associates. … Continue reading
The Fatal Conceit in Organizations
If you find yourself justifying centralized decision-making in your organization, especially when you have decision-makers who you will be overriding, you should consider three things. 1) You may have the fatal conceit. 2) You have hired the wrong people. 3) … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Art of Management, Business, People Management
Tagged Leadership, Management, The Fatal Conceit
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Weekly Roundup
First, from Walter Williams, A Minority View: Excused Horrors. Nazis were responsible for the deaths of 20 million of their own people and those in nations they conquered. Between 1917 and 1983, Stalin and his successors murdered, or were otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics, Taxes
Tagged Economics, Feedback, government programs, Leadership, Milton Friedman
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Are You Qualified for that Position?
During the 2008 elections, friends thought I was crazy when I told them that I was disappointed in both tickets. I said the most qualified person for the job of President is the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, because she was … Continue reading
All Politicians Are Narcissists
This post at Cafe Hayek reminded me of one my key rules: Assume all politicians are narcissist. Even the one’s I vote for. I do not trust them. I will not spend much energy defending them. That’s why I love … Continue reading
I Like the Way He Runs the Country
Long ago I asked him what he liked about the then President. He replied, “I like the way he runs the country.” At the time, I didn’t understand what was fundamentally wrong with his statement. Now I do. Many today … Continue reading
Thomas Sowell’s Brainy Bunch
Here’s a good read today from Thomas Sowell. Some key words: There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Government, Leadership, Politics
Tagged Capitalism, Leadership, Reagan, Thomas Sowell
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Milton and Rose Friedman on Adam Smith's Key Insight
From the Introduction of Free to Choose: One set of ideas was embodied in The Wealth of Nations, the masterpiece that established the Scotsman Adam Smith as the father of modern economics. It analyzed the way in which a market … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Systems thinking
Tagged Capitalism, Economics, Leadership, Milton Friedman, Politics
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Simple, Complex, Simple
“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Supreme Court Justice, 1902 – 1932 “Everything should … Continue reading
Posted in Art of Management
Tagged Albert Einstein, Leadership, Management, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Warren Buffett
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