Posts written by Dave Anderson We don’t coddle people. We care for them. Some leaders are soft. They mistakenly believe that being nice is always the best choice. Unfortunately, they miss the point. The goal of leadership is not being nice. A leader’s calling is to make the people around them better. Sometimes making someone […]
Interested in what I have to offer? Tell me more about your needs. Check out Dave’s Amazon Best Seller, Becoming a Leader of Character. Order the Book I’m Dave Anderson, a West Point graduate, a Character Evangelist and a family man. I’m based in Tyler, TX, but serve businesses all over the world. More about […]
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Check out Dave’s Amazon Best Seller, Becoming a Leader of Character. Order the Book I’m Dave Anderson, a West Point graduate, a Character Evangelist and a family man. I’m based in Tyler, TX, but serve businesses all over the world. More about Dave Anderson Click here to receive my blog posts by e-mail. Sign me up! Dell Astra […]
We don’t coddle people. We care for them. Some leaders are soft. They mistakenly believe that being nice is always the best choice. Unfortunately, they miss the point. The goal of leadership is not being nice. A leader’s calling is to make the people around them better. Sometimes making someone better means we care about […]
Posts in the ‘Management’ category We don’t coddle people. We care for them. Some leaders are soft. They mistakenly believe that being nice is always the best choice. Unfortunately, they miss the point. The goal of leadership is not being nice. A leader’s calling is to make the people around them better. Sometimes making someone […]
Posts in the ‘Management’ category It was nuts! I had all the documentation and evidence I needed to fire her, but I was being investigated! She claimed I created an unfair work environment. This woman skipped work and lied repeatedly. I got reports of her sleeping with some customers and unprofessional behavior with others. Her […]
Posts in the ‘Management’ category “There are plenty of good idea men. A lot of them are collecting tolls on the thruway as we speak.” It is a rare individual who can be counted on for ideas and for action. Over time, as I hired and led teams, I realized that while I loved to […]
Let’s clear something up. We are all called to lead! “But, I’m just not the leader type.” Some people say this because they misunderstand leadership. Some people say this because they don’t want the responsibility that comes with being a leader. But, avoiding leadership is next to impossible. Because leadership is influence and we all […]
Don’t play the blame game. Problem finders are everywhere. It does not take a PhD, a MBA or even a GED to be a good problem finder. It takes no skill or advanced education to point fingers. Problem finders usually wallow at the lower levels in organizations and rarely make it past middle management. However, […]
“People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.” -Samuel Johnson Is the problem with the forgetful followers or with their leaders? Samuel Johnson is saying that as a leader, we need to be the Chief Reminder Officer. If something is important it is worth repeating. If we find people forgetting what […]
In 1846, the weapon of choice for Army Officers was the saber. At West Point, the Academy for training officers for the Army, they needed someone to teach the cadets how to use the saber. They went to Paris, France and selected a “Fencing Master”, Patrice d’Janon, to come to West Point and gave him […]
There is a leadership crisis in our culture. Politics. Business. Sports. Families. Wherever you turn the results of this crisis are evident. Some of the symptoms are political stalemate, lack of trust, dysfunctional teams, cheating in athletics or broken homes. There are a lot of approaches to fixing these symptoms. But the problem is we […]
Some organizations do not have people ready to step into a vacant leadership position. The issue in most of these situations is not a lack of talent, but a lack of people development. And that is the leader’s job. If you’re people are not growing, you are probably not leading. People are what make the […]
