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“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” – Proverbs 27:17 One implicit goal of ELA’s leadership programs is to encourage participants to forge relationships that help them grow as leaders. Sometimes those relationships take the form of classic mentorships: a more experienced mentor shares wisdom and offers guidance to a less experienced protégée. These relationships […]
We human beings are fallible. We make mistakes. Screw up. Goof. Err. Given that errors are inevitable, I’m always surprised by how painful it can be when that aspect of our humanity manifests itself. A healthy respect for our fallibility is a very good thing. It causes us to be careful, and to design processes […]
It’s true: “actions speak louder than words.” It is one thing to support an effort with words, and another to contribute our time, our energies, or our resources. A sincere apology can constitute very important words, helping to heal and strengthen relationships after we do harm. But, if that apology isn’t supported by action, then […]
“I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands…” To take the Pledge of Allegiance is a remarkable act, which is often (nearly universally) overlooked. The first pledge, composed by Franics Bellamy in 1892, was deliberately simple and brief: “I pledge allegiance to my […]
I often close presentations with the following observation. I am grateful to Pastor Dan Carlson of Public Safety Ministries for encouraging me to put it in writing. I believe that the first leadership development seminar on earth was an ancient campfire. Consider the scene: the tribe, clan, village – the community – gathered together after […]
Yesterday morning, a good friend took me flying in a single-engine Piper. It was great fun, and, in a very distinctive way, quite thought-provoking. I am not a pilot. Understandably then, I considered myself a passenger. The pilot corrected me: I was crew. I needed to understand what was going on in the cockpit, and […]
My father, Maher J. Weinstein, died of cancer almost 17 years ago. I think of him every day. Maher was a lawyer by profession, but a teacher by disposition. He was also a remarkable human being, who enjoyed the hell out of his own life, while he enriched the lives of those around him. I […]
The headline from last Monday’s HBR Daily Stat offered a grim assessment: “Male Professionals with Higher Ethical Standards Earn Less.” According to research by Andrew Hussey of the University of Memphis, “Male business professionals who self-report high ethical character earn, on average, 3.4% less than their peers who don’t report having such standards.” Women suffer […]
I have spent much of the past few weeks training fireservice leaders through programs presented by SBM Fire Department and by Gasaway ConsultingGroup. These have been 3-hour sessions addressing multiple audiences. The concentrated repetition of topics, together with the diverse audiences (many departments, all levels of experience) have stimulated some new ideas, and challenged me […]
Treasured readers, I spent last Friday presenting an ethics seminar to a room full of fire inspectors at the Institute for Building Officials at the University of Minnesota. We had a lively discussion (banishing my greatest fear: eight hours of silent staring), which included some interesting themes about ongoing improvement and the need to stay […]
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