Instead of dictating, managers should be “producers” who collaborate with their
employees. A culture of collaboration engages employees. They don’t
just take ownership of their ideas,
but they share ownership of ideas.
There’s a big difference between being a manager and being a leader. In the words of John Quincy Adams, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” Managers push, leaders pull. People don’t follow managers, they follow leaders.
By Jim Whitt After picking up the mail Charlie Mitchell and I were on our way out of the Post Office when a man pointed
By Jim Whitt The Wizard of Oz thrilled audiences in movie theaters when it was released in 1939 and because it has been replayed for
by Jim Whitt Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? I wanted to know so I did an internet search to find
By Jim Whitt Sometimes it’s strange where you find inspiration. My friend Monty Teeter asked me to speak at his company’s Christmas party. I
By Jim Whitt “Two roads diverged in the wood,” wrote Robert Frost. And I — I took the one less traveled by. And that has
By Jim Whitt In The Country of the Blind, H.G. Wells writes about a mountaineer, a man named Nunez, who stumbles into a country inhabited