Mission Statements Are Strategic In any enterprise creating a mission statement belongs to the strategic planning process. In grant writing it is important to be aware of issues and concepts surrounding strategic planning. As such there are three things that organizations need to state clearly and up front: Vision, values and mission. This post talks […] Read more
How to apply ethics to leadership and to be certain that you are doing the right thing “Ethics is concerned with the kind of values and morals an individual or society finds desirable or appropriate”. So says Peter Northouse[i]. Our values and morals are internalized into our character as what we believe to be right […] Read more
Developing yourself as a leader within the organization that you work with can be very rewarding. How you develop relates directly to how you fit into the culture of the organization around you. Being aware of the cultural environment you are in will make you a responsive and effective leader. It will also give you […] Read more
This post is about the some of the basic concepts of leadership. It discusses just a few ideas about where leadership ability comes from and how you can develop your strengths as a leader. This is a topic that I have been thinking about lately and, as I started writing this post, I realized that […] Read more
Hello World and Happy Fourth of July! It is the 236th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence for the United States of America, this nation’s birthday. To launch my blog I would like to reflect on what the Fourth of July means for us as a country and on how far we have come since […] Read more
