Occupation: Actor Birth: September 15, 1959
Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on….
What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the ….
At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotion….
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential dif….
For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and mainta….
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error..
All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, ….
Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly connected with….
True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating ….
Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that wil….
As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast..
I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitall….
It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that which you are in business t….
First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective comm….
When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will compensate….
Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, y….
My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree m….
What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness..
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant respons….
As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form..
Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and t….