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Humor and Leadership
A look at humor and leadership through President Obama’s Stand Up Routine at the 2009 White House Correspondents’ Dinner as well as Why Humor is Important in Leadership.
Benefits
- Stress reliever
- Fresh perspective
- Humanizes
Risks
- Everyone does not share the same sense of humor. Be very sensitive to this.
- Humor which is too “inside” can have the opposite effect than intended.
- Humor that is too biting or personal should be avoided.
Questions via Twitter
- @StarFeuri – Often times “leaders” confuse this with making the people around them the butt of jokes. How to make sure your humor avoids this distinction? What to do when your “leader” has not?
- @mvittone (off Twitter) – Can humor at work sometimes be mistaken for a lack of seriousness. I find that my light-hearted attitude matters that are very serious to others sometimes puts off the impression that I dont care. Can serious and humor reside in the same issue?
Weekly Leader Interview
This week’s Weekly Leader is Seth Goldman, President & TEO of Honest Tea
- Mentors & Influencers: Gary Hirshberg, President and CE-Yo of Stoneyfield Farm and Barry Nalebuff, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Honest Tea.
- Mission Driven Business blog at Inc. com
- Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute
- Currently reading: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- Leadership Lunch with Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi
Weekly Leader Team:
Pam Fox Rollin (twitter @PamFR)
Colin Ude-Lewis (@colinudelewis)
Music from the Podsafe Music Network
- Podcast intro – Trance Sends by Trance Blackman
- Weekly Leader interview music – Real Thing by Cantaloop
- The Real You
by Black Lab
Related posts:
- Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 30 – The Leadership Skills Gap
- Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 45 | Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Man
- Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 36 – Rob Hurlbut, CEO of Attune Foods
- Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 37 (Charlie Coiro, US Coast Guard Leadership Development Center)
- Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 24 – Bruce McNamer, CEO, TechnoServe











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