Regardless of your role within a company, these quotes concerning management and leadership are most definitely thought provoking! “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” ~John Quincy Adams “Don’t confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn’t make any progress.” […]
New York City, arguably one of the United States most important cities, appears to be operating with a leadership vacuum at the top! I will present the story providing the anecdotal evidence supporting my thesis in a moment. But, as someone who lived in Manhattan and who now owns a business that relies on the social and criminal stability […]
What attributes make an ordinary leader a great leader? Certainly it’s an ability, often innate, to inspire others while in some way helping to enable them to achieve their best. But is there more? In today’s world a leader not only has to have a great strategic vision along with the willingness to move forward rather than […]
Stress and Stress Management Tips! Imagine for a second that it’s 1 PM Thursday and deadlines loom, reports are due, deals have to close, quotas need to be met and the team that you manage is about to go off the deep end due to the enormous level of stress! On second thought, it’s likely […]
If, as Adam Grant wrote in a 2013 article ‘Give and Take’, leaders need to be givers, must they also be the consummate ‘nice guy’ as well? Givers Gain! On May 6 I had written an article offering the opinion that serial takers needed to be avoided at all costs and that like-minded people going out of […]
In life, as in sports, we are constantly making decisions! Sometimes we learn after the fact that we were right, sometimes that we were wrong and sometimes, both we as well as others simply cannot understand why the hell we did what we decided to do! And no, for those who may be wondering, this […]
Unlike some of the Biglaw issues that bankrupted Dewey & LeBoeuf, small and solo law practices have their own unique set of operating issues! And these issues concerning leadership are not necessarily unique to the practice of law as most any owner or C-Suite occupant of a small business can attest. So what are some of […]
While a title insurance company’s blog is primarily a venue for business news and ideas, not politics, the fact of the matter is that for better or for worse the two are often inextricably linked! For the purposes of this article my politics do not matter (they say that politics is one of the primary topics […]
As 2014 comes to a close there will undoubtedly be employee’s who, for one reason or another, will be heading for the exits at some point in 2015! I can recall an earlier time in my career as a Wall Street analyst when the announcing of the bonuses was followed by an exodus of people […]
If you have ever wondered about the attributes found in great leaders, this Infographic provides some insights from some of today’s great (and fictional) intergalactic space figures! __________________________________________ Michael Haltman, President of Hallmark Abstract Service, New York. HAS is a provider of title insurance in New York State for residential and commercial real estate transactions specializing in […]
