Welcome to my leadership blog. Ideas have consequences and the goal of this blog is to discuss ideas of consequence. Some ideas you may agree with and some you may disagree. No worries. The only rules are that you post under your own name and that you think and discuss in a civil manner. People who attack others only prove they have reached the limit of their logic. The Bible states, "Iron sharpens iron" and we will sharpen one another by what we read, write and think. The goal of this blog is to help us identify and follow truth in all areas of our lives. I encourage you to join our leadership discussion and transform yourself and others through the renewing of our minds.
View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Achievement Focus

TO ACHIEVEMENT

"Imagination" is the key,
To light the fire,
As it comes before "Desire",
The seed bursts open,
To a growing flower,
Emerging as "Willpower".

As the plant grows stronger,
Many leaves to vent,
Then starts the process,
of "Development".

Till the flower bursts open,
Revealing your dream,
From a wish, it's come true,
With some changes in your scheme.
As if almost "Heaven sent",
You have gone,
From a thought,
"To achievement".

david nicoll

Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- People Over Product

Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
- Ross Perot

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Committed to Excellence

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

- Peter Drucker

View Article  Team Orrin Woodward- Leadership is the best Management

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done.

- Peter Drucker

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Leadership Begins with Hunger

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

- Winston Churchill

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Visioneering

Coastal Dream

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
- Warren Bennis

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Quality Leadership

The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.        

- Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers Improving Leadership Effectiveness

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Relationships Matter

In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.     

- Margaret Wheatly Leadership and the New Science

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Essence of Leadership

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. 

             - John Kenneth Galbraith, U.S. economist ìThe Age of Uncertaintyî

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Listening to the People

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“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”

                                                     -Benjamin Disraeli

Too bad more people... or companies... don't believe this.
View Article  Team Orrin Woodward- A Sturdy Ship

Rembrandt. Christ in the Storm on the Lake of Galilee.

The Storm on the Lake of Galilee by Rembrandt van Rijn

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”

Faye Wattleton

View Article  TEAM Orrin Woodward- Doing What's Right!

Integrity comes when character is tested; keep true and never be ashamed of doing what is right.

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