Posted on June 16, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
I’m out camping in the mountains this week, far away from the connected world, so I “pre-loaded” my blogging gun with a link to a great post.
Today’s links come from Art Petty at Management Excellence. Art recently wrote two powerful and popular posts about the “villains, thugs and hoodlums masquerading as leaders” and why they [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
Today’s post comes from Jim Holland. Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best [...]
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Posted on March 2, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
As discussed in a previous post, the practice of love in the context of leadership is both powerful and necessary. Steve Farber describes this clearly in his audio book Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the OS!M. What does it mean to love the people you lead? My definition for the acronym LOVE embodies the actions [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
As discussed in an previous post, it might make some uncomfortable to use the word ‘love’ in the context of leadership. However, the practice of love in the context of leadership is both powerful and necessary. Steve Farber describes this clearly in his audio book Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the OS!M. What does it [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
“There exists a rare and special breed of leaders who…are constantly pushing past current leadership trends in order to achieve…extremely challenging goals. We call these people high altitude leaders.” High altitude leaders succeed by recognizing and surviving specific dangers that always emerge when they take themselves or their teams to the highest levels of performances. [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
The English word ‘love’ has at least four different meanings: strong affection, warm attachment, attraction based on sexual feelings and a score of zero in tennis. Compared to many other languages, the English word ‘love’ is passive. The Greek word agapé (noun) describes a more unconditional love rooted in behavior toward others without regard to [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
One of the non-leadership attributes that bleeds many organizations of their productivity and consumes much personal time is selfishness. It is the act of placing a higher priority on one’s own desires or “needs” than on the desires and needs of other people. When individuals choose to serve themselves over others a callous exterior develops [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
The first principle of the Five Factors of Leadership is that people are assets. Every organization, be it a technology company or a non-profit charitable organization, is composed of people. The people – not the buildings, equipment or intellectual property – compose the true assets of any company. Everything that exists in the world today, [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008 by Michael Ray Hopkin
The Lead on Purpose blog had its first birthday/anniversary earlier this month. During 2008 the blog’s readership has grown substantially through a combination posts about leadership and product management. The following five posts were rated the most popular by readers of Lead on Purpose:
Product manager responsibilities: This post discusses the difference between product owner vs. [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2008 by Michael Ray Hopkin
Lead On Purpose is one year old today. Yippee!
On December 2, 2007 I started the blog with a simple post inviting the world to participate in a discussion about developing and practicing leadership principles regardless of title (whether or not they have management responsibilities over other people). In the first few weeks and months things [...]
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