by Nina | Aug 27, 2008 | Leadership, Nina Simosko
Leaders can be found at all levels of an organization. For sure, you will see them sitting at the boardroom table, but you will also see leaders in the mailroom, on the factory floor and in the cafeteria. In fact, wherever you look — if you look closely enough...
by Nina | Aug 18, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Leadership, Mentoring, Nina Simosko
How often do you look through your organization chart? How closely do you look? What do you look for? Some executives survey their org charts with a sense of achievement, while others look for ways to cut costs; but often a more productive path is to identify new...
by Nina | Aug 15, 2008 | Blogging, Communication, Leadership, Nina Simosko
The path to becoming a leader is never clear. You may arrive at a leadership position by luck, opportunity, hard work or even because of a disaster. It is precisely because of this that many people, as they begin to transition into leadership roles, begin to search...
by Nina | Aug 13, 2008 | Corporate Performance, Crisis Management, Leadership, Nina Simosko
There are plenty of books and quite a few blogs that focus on good leadership. They talk about what needs to be done and when, they discuss decision making, strategy, team building and collaboration. But what about bad leadership? It seems that when it comes to bad...
by Nina | Aug 7, 2008 | Innovation, Leadership, Nina Simosko
Brick walls are not there to keep us out. They let us show our dedication. — Randy Pausch Randy Pausch was an extraordinary leader. This is his “last lecture” on achieving childhood dreams. The idea for this lecture is based on a series of lectures...
by Nina | Aug 6, 2008 | Communication, Leadership, Nina Simosko
Recently, I posted a piece on the tremendously important pursuit of consistent, effective communication. To take my point a step further, I subsequently added a piece regarding a concept called background-foreground communication, wherein I described a method that I...
