Seize Opportunities To Demonstrate You Care
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. While all on it’s own the experience was the most terrifying of my life, the people who were supposed to care about me really didn’t. Doctors, no...
View ArticleGreat Leaders Decide With Their Guts, Not Just Their Brains
“Dig up all the information you can, then go with your instincts. We all have a certain intuition, and the older we get, the more we trust it… I use my intellect to inform my instinct. Then I use my …...
View ArticleFive Powerful And Purposeful Questions To Ask In Every Job Interview
“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” Rumi, 13th … Continue reading →
View ArticleGiving Real Meaning To Your Thanksgiving
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” Thornton Wilder A Note To Readers: When you … Continue reading →
View ArticleFive Things Leaders Should Do In December To Ensure Success In The New Year
“Fortune favors the bold.” Virgil (70-19 BC) There’s a great tendency in the month of December to wind things down. With the holiday season upon us, and … Continue reading →
View ArticleKen Blanchard: A Premier Leadership Mind Turns To The Heart
On a crisp and sunny afternoon at his cabin on Skaneateles Lake in upstate New York, internationally-renown business leadership expert, Ken Blanchard, surprises me by taking frequent and sudden breaks...
View Article4 Simple And Powerful Ways To Build Your Team’s Confidence And Rule The World
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the...
View ArticleThe Profound Lesson Cows Can Teach Us About Leading People
After working out this morning at my gym, I walked into the locker room and overheard one of my friends, Joe, tell another exerciser that he’d grown up on a dairy farm. Instinctively recalling a New...
View ArticleThe Unintended Consequences Of A Leader’s Lack Of Trust
“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” … Continue reading →
View ArticleHow Developing Self-Awareness Will Make You A Fabulous Leader
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. … Continue reading →
View ArticleUniting Spirituality And Leadership For The Sake Of Employee Engagement
“The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.” Clarence Clemons One … Continue reading →
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A Balance Between Masculine And Feminine Traits: The Requirements For Success...
“I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared...
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The Single Greatest Reason The World’s Workforce Is Disengaged
“No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”...
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Three Stunning Leadership Trends That Should Give Hope To Workers Everywhere
“The future ain’t what it used to be.” Yogi Berra Directly or indirectly, the common theme expressed in everything I write is that our...
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Why Your Personal Influence Is Far Greater Than You Ever Knew
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.“ ~ Albert Schweitzer Introduction: Through a series of fascinating studies,...
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Gallup’s Profound Discovery: Engagement Is Driven By Good Managers With Rare...
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” Schopenhauer It’s been nearly a year since Gallup announced its...
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These 5 Books Predict The Future Of Workplace Leadership
A shorter version of this article was concurrently published in Fast Company Magazine. http://tinyurl.com/m7hahnz “The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.”...
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Five Magnificent Ways You Can Lead Like Google Without Spending A Dime On Perks
As research for an article I later wrote for Fast Company Magazine, I traveled to Google’s Mountain View, California campus, and spent the day meeting with several of their talent management...
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Science Agrees With Obi Wan: Trust Your Feelings
Imagine you’re giving a presentation tomorrow to a group of your organization’s top decision makers. Your job will be to persuade them to approve, and invest in, a new initiative you’ve worked over a...
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What My Near-Death Experience Taught Me About Life And Leadership
Early one morning just a few weeks ago, I woke up with the intention of starting my day at the gym. But before I ever made it out of the house, I completely blacked out, fell on a cold travertine...
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