This post is part of the Your Plan of Action series for those new to the executing team (also called management by some. But not by the enlightened readers of this site.).
It is a fact that the projects we deal with on a daily basis in our technology careers are far too complex for a […]

This post is part of the Your Plan of Action series for those new to the executing team (also called management by some. But not by the enlightened readers of this site.).
Recall that we were talking about a plan of action for becoming an effective leader of people, and that we had identified three disciplines […]

David Sobotta has a lifetime of leadership in the community and business, starting with the Boy Scouts and even including advocacy for equal educational opportunities in rural Canada. He is currently the Vice President of Market Development for Webmail.us, a leading provider of email services for small business. He and his wife live in […]

My plan is to run these View from the Top guest leader special articles about once a month, but I have the first two lined up and I think they’re both great, so I wanted to go ahead and run them both right away.
You may have noticed that I’m running these a little longer than […]

[Dr. Thompson is currently William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University. Joe has a long and distinguished career during which he founded an NSF Engineering Research Center, revolutionized computational aerodynamics, and served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee from 1997 through 2001 under both Clinton and Bush.]

Looking back on […]

Some of you may have noticed a couple weeks ago when I added the header to the web site that I included a reference to something called “View from the Top”.
Today I’d like to introduce that new occasional series that we’ll be running about once a month here at onlytraitofaleader.com. In View from the Top […]

This post is part of Setting the Tone in the Your Plan of Action series for those new to the executing team (also called management by some. But not by the enlightened readers of this site.).
Last time I talked about taking corrective action when people—intentionally or unintentionally—act in ways destructive to what you are trying […]

This post is part of Setting the Tone in the Your Plan of Action series for those new to the executing team (also called management by some. But not by the enlightened readers of this site.).
So far we’ve focused on how to positively shape the tone of your organization for success. Leaders put their stamp […]

This post is part of Setting the Tone in the Your Plan of Action series for those new to the executing team.
So far we’re talking about setting the tone, the general atmosphere that you create in your workplace or for your team.
As we talked about last time I think there are two approaches to getting […]

This post is part of Setting the Tone in the Your Plan of Action series for those new to the executing team.
As we said before one of the things that is your job, and that you must never shirk, delegate, or otherwise avoid, is to set the tone. “Tone” is the general atmosphere that you […]