The University of Michigan football team will forever be associated with its former head coach, Bo Schembechler. During his tenure as the head football coach, Michigan prospered and was routinely among the top ranked football programs in the nation. In addition to being a top performing program, many of the former players went on to…… Continue reading Book Review: Bo’s Lasting Lessons
Forbes.com recently had an article pertaining to lessons learned from the Galactic Empire in the Star Wars universe (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/02/13/five-leadership-mistakes-of-the-galactic-empire/). It would appear that Forbes.com has is on a science fiction theme with leadership traits and qualities lately, and that is fine with me, as I grew up on Star Trek and Star Wars. Both Darth…… Continue reading Leadership Mistakes of Emperor Palpatine & Darth Vader
Over the last few years, I have read a few leadership and management books. It seems that when I was simply an IT analyst, the larger picture of things did not seem to apply. I did not really focus on the big picture and tended to keep a narrow focus on my tasks at hand. …… Continue reading Book Review: It’s Your Ship (Captain Michael Abrashoff)
Keeping with the Star Trek leadership theme, Forbes.com also has an article that documents leadership lessons from Captain Jean-Luc Picard (http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/13/five-leadership-lessons-from-jean-luc-picard/). On a personal level, I think Captain Picard was the more believable captain when compared to Captain Kirk from the original series. Well, as believable as one can expect from a science fiction TV…… Continue reading Leadership Lessons from Captain Picard
Forbes.com has recently published an article pertaining to leadership lessons from Star Trek Captain Kirk (www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/05/five-leadership-lessons-from-james-t-kirk/). Being a life-long lover of all things science fiction, I have a soft place in my heart for the original Star Trek series. In spite of limited special effects technology, I think the story and plot lines have always…… Continue reading Lessons in Leadership from Captain Kirk
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