One thing I enjoy sharing through my writings is looking at how everyday events can provide us with valuable lessons on leadership, workplace interactions, as well as changing how we view our present-day circumstances. It’s for this reason I’m sure many of you won’t be surprised that I want to share with you my thoughts about leadership that were inspired from celebrating Mother’s Day.

As was the case in most households over the past weekend, our house was abuzz with activity surrounding the celebration of a day that honours mothers everywhere. Watching the excitement and intensity my children have for planning and orchestrating the events for Mother’s Day, I realized there are some important connections between mothers and leadership.

Granted, motherhood is not something one thinks about as being a useful role to gain some insights into how to lead others given that the dynamics between a mother and her child are vastly different from that between an employer and their employees. And yet, if we look at this from the perspective of the life lessons we learned as children from our moms, we can see some useful points that can help us better understand how to approach the role of leadership in our organizations. Click here to continue reading »”Mothers – Our First Example of Real Leadership”