by Nancy Fredericks | Character Strengths, Leadership
Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to...
by Nancy Fredericks | Character Strengths
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, and hostility to evaporate. — Albert Schweitzer, Theologian, Philosopher As I write this email, Pope Francis has arrived for his visit to the United States. There is no...
by Nancy Fredericks | Character Strengths
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy. -Robert E. Lee My experience is that most executives believe they demonstrate...
by Nancy Fredericks | Character Strengths
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. -Dwight D. Eisenhower—President United States I know business is serious; and yet, an environment that is rich in Humor yields a higher level of productivity,...
by Nancy Fredericks | Character Strengths, Creativity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. —Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Have you...
