One Saturday in August nearly 25 years ago, I was playing golf with my friend, John Gregorits, at Flanders Valley GC in Morris County, NJ. John was a fine golfer, who usually beat me like a drum, even when I played well. But that day, although he got ahead by two holes after we’d played […]
Author Archives: Dave Franzetta
Leadership Wisdom of the Cheshire Cat
A student in one of my Leader Development Program sessions was grappling with his role as a leader in his organization. He felt that he had never sought out a leadership role, and wasn’t sure that it was something that he really wanted to do. He was fascinated by Nelson Mandela’s concept of “Lead from […]
On the Lookout for Wisdom
I was trying to understand the popularity of websites like Yelp.com and Digg.com. These sites rely on the so-called Wisdom of Crowds to identify the best places to eat, shop, etc. [Yelp] and to determine what news is REALLY news [Digg]. Apparently, when we somehow aggregate the knowledge and information of a large number of people, we come […]