by Damian Gerke | Sep 26, 2019 | Character, Trust
-I recently left a position with a great company, but with a long daily commute. This is the third of an 8-week blog series on things about leadership that I learned on those long and tedious hours on the road.- – – – – At one point in my...
by Damian Gerke | Feb 1, 2019 | Development, Leadership, Self-awareness, Team, Trust
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs has long been a staple theory for understanding human behavioral psychology and motivation. The hierarchy is illustrated as a pyramid, with the more basic, fundamental needs at the bottom and self-actualization at the top. It illustrates...
by Damian Gerke | Jan 24, 2019 | Attitude, Development, Failure, Fear, Leadership, Perspective, Purpose, Self-awareness, Team, Trust
As you may or may not know, road cycling is a favorite addiction, er … I mean, hobby of mine. In my book Taking the Lead: What Riding a Bike Can Teach You About Leadership, I used 30 different cycling experiences to illustrate key leadership principles. One...
by Damian Gerke | Jan 18, 2019 | Behavior, Leadership, Passion, Purpose, Self-awareness, Team, Trust
In my experience, passion in leadership usually instills urgency, value and meaning into a team’s work effort. But it’s easy to equate passion and its distant cousin, emotion, to disastrous effect. They are related but very different. Borrowing from...
by Damian Gerke | Aug 25, 2017 | Authority, Behavior, Blog Series, Character, Communication, Development, Fear, Influence, Leadership, Legacy, Perspective, Priorities, Purpose, Relationships, Society, Trust, Vision
This is the last in a 12-part series is about the most basic—and vital—of leadership roles: Parenting. In my experience, it’s rarely discussed as leadership. Yet without sound parenting, no generation has any real hope of building capable bench strength of...
by Damian Gerke | Jun 15, 2017 | Authority, Blog Series, Communication, Culture, Development, Influence, Leadership, Relationships, Team, Trust
This series is about viewing parenting from the perspective of leadership and developing future leaders. Being a parent is the most basic—and vital—of all leadership roles, though it’s rarely thought of that way. Parenting is the single most challenging thing...
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