Are you a leader or just loud? - Eric D. Brown, D.Sc.

Sometimes I wonder about our leaders. These leaders may be your country’s leaders or they may be your teacher. Perhaps your VP or your CEO.

I think about these people and wonder if they really are leaders…or are they just loud?

Take a second to think about your organization. Is there someone there that you feel is in a leadership role and shouldn’t be? Are they in that role because they are a leader or because they were able to make people think they were?

Don’t get me wrong…I know there are some folks out there (maybe even many people) that are doing a great job as a leader…but sometimes I feel as though we (as a civilization) aren’t necessarily looking for real leaders. I think we’ve gotten comfortable with having poor leadership and we’ve become numb to the harmful actions of those that are loud.

I hope you’re taking the leadership role and doing something about ‘it’….whatever ‘it’ is. Perhaps ‘it’ is changing the world or perhaps ‘it’ is just making your street a better place to live. There are plenty of people that talk about being a leader (being loud) but few that really step up and lead.

Being a leader is hard work. Being loud isn’t. Being loud is telling people what they want to hear. Being a leader is telling people what they don’t want to hear.

Are you leading or just being loud? Am I? Good question…

People and Leadership: Management by Quotation (slackermanager.com)
A Definition of Leadership (iaindale.blogspot.com)

About Eric

Eric D. Brown, D.Sc. is a technology consultant, investor and entrepreneur with an interest in using technology and data to solve real-world business problems. Eric currently runs his own consulting practice focused on helping organizations use their data more efficiently when combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Additionally, he is the Chief Information Officer of Sundial Capital Research, publisher of SentimenTrader

Eric received his Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in Information Systems in 2014 with a dissertation titled “Analysis of Twitter Messages for Sentiment and Insight for use in Stock Market Decision Making”. His research interests are currently in the areas of decision support, data science, big data, natural language processing, sentiment analysis and social media analysis.In recent years, he has combined sentiment analysis, natural language processing and big data approaches to build innovative systems and strategies to solve interesting problems. You can read some of his research here: Eric D. Brown on ResearchGate

In addition, he is an entrepreneur that has launched a few companies with the most recent being a company focused on proving data analytics and visualization services to the financial markets.

Eric is also a semi-professional photographer and enjoys taking photographs when he can.

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Laura

13 years ago

Hi Eric,

This is a great reminder to get people thinking about what leadership really means within organizations. I often feel that some of the best leaders are not "those at the top" but those who know how to get things done within the organization through influence. They consistently drive the organization forward one small step at a time. Although historically this type of leadership was not recognized, I think we are seeing positive swings toward the bottom-up rather than the top-down approach.

Laura
http://www.bridging-the-gap.com

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14 years ago

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