Three Star Leadership Blog: Recent Comments 2008-05-11T22:38:23Z http://blog.threestarleadership.com/comments/atom.aspx Quick Blog Comment on Serenity for supervisors tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-10:1036032 Karl Staib - Your Work Happiness Matters http://www.workhappynow.com 2008-05-10T22:03:06Z 2008-05-10T22:03:06Z
Thanks for a great article!]]> Comment on Serenity for supervisors tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-10:1035041 Tom Magness http://www.leaderbusiness.blogspot.com 2008-05-10T09:32:27Z 2008-05-10T09:32:27Z Comment on More silliness about leaders or managers tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-08:1030975 Dan McCarthy http://greatleadershipbydan.blogspot.com/ 2008-05-08T19:02:45Z 2008-05-08T19:02:45Z I really do understand and appreciate the difference between leadership and management. Otherwise I wouldn’t have chosen the name “Great Leadership” for my blog.:)
It’s just that I’ve found it to be practical to use the words interchangeable when referring to those in supervisory, management, or executive roles. Here’s a post I wrote a on the topic: “Leadership” vs. “Management” – does it really matter? http://greatleadershipbydan.blogspot.com/2007/11/leadership-vs-management-does-it-really.html

After you read it, I’d enjoy hearing your thoughts.]]> Comment on What about me? What about my needs? tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-08:1030261 Wally Bock 2008-05-08T12:20:25Z 2008-05-08T12:20:25Z Hi Nina. Thanks for the kind words. And thanks for adding that important point that if you're the leader, it should never be about you.

]]> Comment on What about me? What about my needs? tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-08:1030177 Nina http://www.ninasimosko.com 2008-05-08T11:45:25Z 2008-05-08T11:45:25Z Great piece! Truly...very good read! This is something that I think about as a leader. Is it about me or my team or my company? One thing is for sure....it should NEVER be about me! As leaders, we must always know that the needs of the organization or our teams outweigh our personal needs, especially is the costs of the achieving personal needs [i.e. accolades] are so high for the broader group.

This is somewhat along the lines of what I wrote about in regard to Marion Jones. She chose to pursue personal accolades and achievements and caused irreparable harm to her team, her country, her sport in making some poor choices.

Perhaps Jerry Yang does not have the personal confidence in himself to be successful under the Microsoft umbrella. This is ashame given his tremendous capabilities and vision.

You can see my piece on Marion Jones here:
http://ninasimosko.com/blog/2008/04/25/what-leaders-can-learn-from-marion/

Anyway, I found your piece to be a thoroughly enjoyable entry!!]]> Comment on What about me? What about my needs? tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-08:1029797 Wally Bock 2008-05-08T08:55:08Z 2008-05-08T08:55:08Z Thanks for stopping by and sharing that John.

 

I definitely give Kudos to Steve Ballmer for saying "No" when so many CEOs would keep going, regardless. And I think you're right about Microsoft dodging the bullet they fired.

 

They've got lots of problems right now. The Vista operating system has turned into a real albatross. Even so, Microsoft will cease supporting XP, which a lot of users prefer to the bad surprises of Vista. They still haven't figured out the net, especially search, but also software delivery. Like many successful companies when times change, the appear to be investing mostly in the old technology they know instead of developing new.

]]> Comment on What about me? What about my needs? tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-08:1029768 John Agno http://www.coachingtip.com 2008-05-08T08:42:55Z 2008-05-08T08:42:55Z
Microsoft's next course of action will likely be to try to form a competitive advantage through tie-ups with other Internet companies that could pull more consumers and advertisers to its Internet services.

As Google continues to leverage its huge marketshare advantage by increasing advertisers' costs, Microsoft has an opportunity to become the umbrella for a stable of many specialty search engines...at a much lower cost-per-click (CPC) price than Google offers.]]> Comment on 5/7/08: A midweek look at the business blogs tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-08:1029527 Wally Bock 2008-05-08T06:01:58Z 2008-05-08T06:01:58Z Thanks for stopping by, John. I'm now at a point where I think there are lessons to be learned from the multiplayer online gaming world, but I don't think they'll herald a change in the basic way leadership is done in real, everyday human organizations.

]]> Comment on Leadership development stage by stage tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-07:1028838 Cyril Rayan http://www.cyrilrayan.com 2008-05-07T19:45:15Z 2008-05-07T19:45:15Z http://www.cyrilrayan.com
A few things to consider for our personal development as a leader:

- Read leadership books

- Have mentors who are great leaders

- Build strong relationships

- Mentor others

- Solve not only your problems but also others problems

- Think about how you can help others you meet and help them

- Persevere through whatever challenges you are facing

- Listen to great speeches

- Do public speaking

- Know your strengths and weaknesses and focus on strengths and bring other team members to eliminate the impact of weaknesses]]> Comment on 5/7/08: A midweek look at the business blogs tag:blog.threestarleadership.com,2008-05-07:1028690 John Caddell http://shoptalkmarketing.blogspot.com 2008-05-07T18:41:11Z 2008-05-07T18:41:11Z
Regards, John]]>