In 2015, our chamber colleagues at the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives issued a report about the future of chambers. The report was called, Horizon Initiative: Chambers 2025. Here we are – six years later in this ten-year forecast – with an opportunity to look back at how relevant and poignant these issues were. […]
Follow the Leader and Manage Up
I am not sure when I first heard the term “managing up.” I am fairly certain it was associated with having a bad or disengaged boss. As I look back over the course of my professional career, I have come to the conclusion that I have never truly had a “bad boss,” and that the […]
Great Leaders are Enemies of the Status Quo
Most effective leaders see themselves as having a positive attitude. They would never describe themselves as the enemy of very much at all. But as I have read and interacted with some excellent leaders, I have grown to understand that they all have a common foe. They are all enemies of the status quo. STATUS […]