Not just Human Resources...

1. Data is a slave to its user 2. No one is a great leader everyday. Leadership is a choice that a person has to make everyday. 3. A leader who is visionary and inspiring in one situation may be absolutely ineffective in another. 4. Ego is very expensive for an organization 5. People ‘do’ less than 20% of their talk-quotient. 6. When judging your own performance, it always seems like you have moved mountains… when judging another’s,’ it seems like the environment conspired to make it happen. 7. Half – truths are lies 8. The trustworthy person is one who has personal integrity in thought, word and action 9. A leader with thinly veiled personal ambition of self-advancement can never be a good leader 10. A leader has to BE the values he wants to inculcate 11. A person who is unable to balance work and life is too uni-dimensional to be a good leader in the long run 12. I have never met a good leader who wasn’t a good person first 13. It is time to be concerned when perceptions become great

Really??????? Is that a term? Sometimes I feel like a kid in a candy store with a crazy pick of self-serving terms coined by genius wordsmiths that give it a legitimacy and power beyond anything it should ever be allowed to command! Wow… anecdotal evidence …. Really? Meaning that I can record one instance of the person in a not so positive light and hold it against him for the rest of his life???? Cool!!! I’ve got to get me one of those!!! Its like a paparazzi masterminded sneak attack on a poor hapless celebrity! It has every exhilarating element possible… from the mystery and the suspense, to the sneakiness and voyeurism, to the manipulation that is such an essential element, to finally fully engaging the creative instinct in the form of the final story telling… I have recently acquired a renewed empathy for my fellow corporate denizens who crunch through mounds of data, facts and figures just so that the rest of us can make some sense out of the world we operate in… mainly because I