This week I had the privilege of speaking before The Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, an organization dedicated to developing strong leadership and civic engagement skills in young Latinas in our community. I wanted to start with a typical definition of leadership before presenting my thoughts and found this: A process of social influence whereby one…
If you ask what makes a good manager, you’ll get a lot of different answers. A good manager communicates well, knows when to delegate, keeps the big picture in mind, etc. This is all true but it also takes something else, a special insight into yourself as well as others – you have to know…
Managerial Courage. I touched on this in a previous post but I’d like to explore the subject a little more. If courage is lacking, it makes it hard to do the right thing when difficult issues arise. Managerial courage means taking on a project or making a decision without being 100% sure that it will work. It…
