by Becky Robinson | May 4, 2009 | Leadership
In the middle of my junior year of high school, my family moved from West Virginia to Ohio. Due to more stringent driver’s education requirements in Ohio, had a choice: enroll in driving school or forfeit my license. Unwilling to part with my new-found freedom,...
by Becky Robinson | May 1, 2009 | Leadership
To the man in the midnight blue Impala: Thank you. I drove behind you last Friday for a mile in rush hour traffic. We were hardly moving, so I could see that you were talking with someone in the passenger seat. You were using American Sign Language. I was mesmerized....
by Becky Robinson | Apr 30, 2009 | Leadership
Authenticity is an important character quality for people who want to influence and direct others. Successful leaders display consistency of words and deeds. Authentic leaders are true to their own personalities, honest with themselves and others about who they are,...
by Becky Robinson | Apr 27, 2009 | Leadership
Lately I have been thinking about authenticity, especially it relates to leadership. I keep returning to two opposite images from the first weeks of my freshman year in college. I arrived at my all girls’ dorm to find most of the women in my corridor had already...
by Becky Robinson | Apr 23, 2009 | Leadership
Dr. John Townsend’s new book Leadership Beyond Reason is the perfect take-along for a mini-retreat. If you are in the trenches of leadership, you may feel that you don’t have time to set aside a day or weekend for introspection. You may be more concerned...
by Becky Robinson | Apr 20, 2009 | Leadership
I resumed my role as our condo association’s president recently. The previous president, embroiled in an unexpected crisis with plumbers and gas leaks, had decided the stress was more than he wanted to handle. By default, I agreed to take up where he left off....
