Run by People: The Psychological Reality of Business
January 22nd, 2012 // 7:22 am @ M.H. Nicholas
The notion a corporation is a person, shorthand to indicate that a corporation as an entity separate and distinct from the people owning it, has become the subject of great political fodder. The politicized nature, whether or not corporations have the individual rights of citizens (such as free speech), masks the fundamental operational flaw of the corporation: that it is never separate but rather comprised of people, oftentimes with interests differing from those of the business itself.
Category : Efficiency &Leadership &Managing and Being Managed &Perception Issues
Leaders Don’t Fart: The Joe Paterno Collapse
November 9th, 2011 // 8:57 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
Coach Paterno, who was fired just as I began this entry, is among the most dramatic and painful falling of a leader that can occur. Coach was a superhero.
Category : Leaders Don't Fart
Leaders Don’t Fart: the Bartz Termination
September 9th, 2011 // 1:26 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
For Bartz, this stuff is symbolic of a person who does not understand that every word by a CEO of stature should be something to be considered, wise and thoughtful; but add emotion and profanity, insults and abrasion, and the respect is lost even if the substance exists.
Category : Careers and Employment &Leaders Don't Fart
Leaders Don’t Fart – Teachers Friending Students Just Stinks
August 6th, 2011 // 9:40 am @ M.H. Nicholas
Facebook certainly did not start the problem of the student-teacher relationship. It did not start at my high school when Coach D. decided he was going commence a sexual relationship (affair) with one of the girls he coached on the woman’s track team.
Category : Leaders Don't Fart
Leaders Don’t Fart – the Fullerton Police Murders
August 3rd, 2011 // 3:11 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
At this point, all signs point to an tremendous/needless violent beating of a non-violent homeless man who was approached by two officers. The man tried to depart and the man was then beaten (on camera), electrocuted repeatedly (by taser), banged against the curb, beaten with the butt end of objects and made unrecognizable (the photo is published online) – all while he begged and pleaded on camera screaming for his dad. Yes… this is all available for your listening pleasure. The facts don’t look good for our Fullerton men in blue.
Category : Leaders Don't Fart
Leaders Don’t Fart – Sexy Lack of Control the Weiner Way
July 30th, 2011 // 9:38 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
Did Representative Weiner from the State of New York commit a crime? Yes. The crime of disrespecting the people he was tasked with leading.
Category : Leaders Don't Fart
Raw Honesty is Rarely the Truth
May 23rd, 2011 // 12:36 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
Some people consider it their moral imperative to tell people the unadulterated truth. Over-honesty, however, is as much (or more) a sickness as the sickness suffered by the pathological liar – although the liar may have more career upside potential. Being an “honest” person does not mean imposing a blunt truth, but rather conforming to the general conversational characteristics that embody conversational etiquette.
Category : Careers and Employment &Efficiency &Leadership &Perception Issues &Truth and Lies &Workplace Reality
Exceptionalism is a Stupidly Easy Achievement
May 22nd, 2011 // 11:59 pm @ M.H. Nicholas
To be exceptional simply requires doing what you say that you are going to do. This is the downfall for so many folks who could have been the most exceptional.
Category : Blog &Efficiency &Leadership &Managing and Being Managed &Perception Issues
Farting Leaders – An Introduction
November 13th, 2010 // 8:48 am @ M.H. Nicholas
As we discussed in I Come First, most of our best leaders are never seen cursing or insulting other people; nor do they complain, get stressed, or feel depressed—and they don’t fart.
Category : Leaders Don't Fart
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