Tag: Leadership

Categories
Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Presidential Leadership Lessons from Chester A. Arthur

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox continue our series of exploring leadership through the study of US Presidents. This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Chester A. Arthur. Some of the highlights include:
  1. Educational and Professional Background of Chester A. Arthur.
  2. His time as a New York politician, including work in the Conkling Political Machine and as Head of Customs House and conflict with President Hays.
  3. His Stalwart Candidacy as Vice President.
  4. His election and short tenure as VP.
  5. Leadership issues from his Presidency, including the confusion on how to take office, his enactment of Civil Service reform, his work on the surplus budget and the tariff, immigration issues, and Civil Rights in the South.Leadership Issues, including (a) What are your expectations? (b) How much does a leader’s health matter? (c) Arthur adopted a code for his political behavior but was subjected to three restraints: he remained to everyone a man of his word; he kept scrupulously free from corrupt graft; he maintained a personal dignity, affable and genial though he might be.
Categories
Daily Compliance News

September 15, 2022 the Toxic Customers Edition

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News:

  • Welfare funds for volleyball arena-only in Mississippi. (ESPN)
  • Serial-the power of podcasting. (WSJ)
  • Sun’s owner was suspended, but not sorry. (com)
  • What can you do? (WSJ)
Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Chariots of Fire

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back with another review of an Oscar-winning Best Picture movie with an eye towards the leadership lessons that might be drawn from them. It is a great way to honor the Oscars, rewatch some great old movies and garner some interesting perspectives on leadership. We continue that tradition as we are back with more leadership lessons from Oscar-winning Best Picture movies and today’s offering is the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from the Oscars-The Last Emperor

We continue our look at Oscar-winning Best Pictures and consider the leadership lessons we can glean from our viewing. In this episode, Richard Lummis and I take at the 1987 Best Picture winning film, The Last Emperor. Some of the highlights were:  This was the first movie shot in the Forbidden City; How does one lead in an era or region of different values and different cultures? Are the trappings of your power as a business leader only that, mere trappings? If so what does this mean? How does your company do business outside the US? and Why does even the best leader sometimes need to bring in an outside expert to assist?

Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from No Country for Old Men

In this episode of Popcorn and Compliance, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox take at the 2007 Best Picture-winning film, No Country for Old Men. Some of the highlights were: (1)  One of the key themes of the movie is the tension between destiny and self-determination; (2)  What have been the changes in law enforcement in the former wild west? (3)  What does enforcing laws on the former frontier mean? (4)  Crime has changed and become more sophisticated. The regulator and enforcers must also change, and (5)  What happens when a hero or business leader grows old?

Categories
Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Leadership Lessons from William Howard Taft

Richard Lummis and I are back with more business leadership lessons from American Presidents. In this episode, we look at leadership lessons from William Howard Taft, the 27th President, who had the misfortune to follow one of America’s greatest and most popular Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. Taft was a mountain of a man, weighing over 300 lbs. He is also the only President to become Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court after he left the office of the Presidency. Highlights of this podcast include:

  1. Background of Taft.
  2. Education and early professional life in Ohio.
  3. Move to Washington, the role of Nellie and work in the Philippines.
  4. Work in the Roosevelt Administration.
  5. Presidential Term.
  6. 1912 Presidential election.
  7. Final thoughts on leadership lessons.

Resources

  1.  National Park Service article on his home and upbringing.
  2. Taft as good-hearted
  3. Taft, TR and the Bully Pulpit-Forbes
Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from The Sting

In this episode of Popcorn and Compliance, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox take at the 1973 Best Picture-winning film, The Sting. Some of the highlights were: (1)  Best Costume Design Oscar to Edith Head was a key reason for the film’s success; (2)  How many red flags did Doyle Lonnegan miss involving Gondorff and Hooker? (3)  How did Marvin Hamlisch’s interpretation of Scott Joplin enhance the movie? (4)   The script was discovered in an agent’s ‘slush pile’ of unread scripts; and (5)  How can a leader use the talent and resources available to him or her to achieve a goal?

Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Casablanca

Richard Lummis and Tom Fox are back to look at one of the very all-time greats, Casablanca. Highlights of this podcast include:

  1. What are our favorites scenes from the movie?
  2. What is the world view from Casablanca, including actions and behaviors, values and belief systems and stories of life?
  3. What are the leadership lessons from the nobility of Rick Blaine?
  4. What can you learn from one of the movie’s greatest lovers?
  5. How does compassion help in leadership?
  6. Do these lessons hold up today?
Categories
Popcorn and Compliance

Leadership Lessons from Rocky

Richard Lummis and I are back to look at leadership lessons from one of the very all-time boxing movies, Rocky. Highlights of this podcast include:

  1. What are our favorites scenes from the movie? No one knows anything; you owe yourself, get the work done, and we are all underdogs.
  2. What are the leadership lessons from Rocky Balboa? Repetition will make you great; tech can be a great business advantage but never forget the human element and practice for the worst.
  3. What are the leadership lessons from Apollo Creed? The mind is the greatest muscle; pay attention to those behind you.
  4. What are the leadership lessons from Rocky’s trainer Mick?
  5. What is the leadership lesson from the boxing ring? Go the distance and think long term; it’s not about how hard you punch but how hard a punch you can take and go back into the ring when it’s the toughest.
  6. Do these lessons hold up today?
Categories
Presidential Leadership Lessons for the Business Executive

Leadership Lessons from the Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

This episode begins a short series on Gilded Age Presidents, now largely forgotten. In this episode, we take up Rutherford B. Hayes and try to mine the issues he faced for some leadership lessons for the 21st-century business executive. Some of the problems we consider include:

1. Hayes Educational and Professional Background

2. The Disputed Election of 1876 and Compromise-(1)Election Commission; (2) Terms of the Compromise, and (3) Was it necessary?

3. Hayes’ Presidency-(1) Reconstruction ends-was it inevitable? (2) Civil Service Reform; (3) Cabinet Selections; (4) Port of New York; and (5) the Post Office.

a. Foreign Policy-(1) Paraguay War settlement; (2) Mexican border crisis; and (3) Immigration issues.

b. Great RR Strike of 1877, the Great Western Tour, his Indian Policy and Lemonade Lucy

4. Hayes Leadership Issues-

(1)“He serves his party best, who serves his country best.”;

(2) Rutherford the Rover;

(3) Use of veto and

(4) Conflicts with Congress over Congressional v. Executive Power.