The Governors’ Wind Energy Coalition has welcomed Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad as its new Chairman and Vice Chairman. “States continue to play a leading role developing the nation’s renewable energy resources, and capturing the jobs and economic benefits that these growing clean energy industries provide,” said Governor Inslee. “Washington state’s…
Learning from leaders
We’ve all enjoyed and suffered with a variety of leaders in our working careers. They have unwittingly imparted many leadership lessons just by their behavior and day-to-day activity of running their departments. So for this leadership issue, I thought it would be instructive to recall those people and the lessons they taught, both good and…
Lessons in leadership
You manage things but you lead people, says author Stephen Covey. I believe he is right. Good leaders make you want to be good followers. I wrote similar words on these pages about a year ago, in our last leadership issue. Indeed, being a good leader means doing the right thing. By the time you…