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SloanGroupInternationalResilience Attributes: Empathy – Can You Stand in My Shoes?Empathy is a primary key to conflict resolution. However, like other keys, it tends to go missing just when we need it. In fact, some filmmakers felt so stro...
SloanGroupInternationalResilience Attributes: Are You Really Collaborative?Resilience requires us not just to be flexible and adaptable, but to have supportive relationships with others who can help us when the going gets tough. Sup...
SloanGroupInternationalResilient Leadership Quote of the Day“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow...
SloanGroupInternationalValues Proposition: What Does Your Organization Care About?Recently my company (KS&C) has been doing a great deal of work with leaders around their individual and organizational values, and tying values to employee e...
SloanGroupInternationalResilience and Self-Awareness“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” Lao Tzu Mike Judge was the kid who was always doodling in...
SloanGroupInternationalResilience & ConfidenceIt moved him. That night he scrawled “chapter one” on a legal pad. Three agonizing years later, A Time to Kill was born. “I had never worked so hard in my li...
SloanGroupInternationalResilience & PositivityOur book LEMONADE: The Leaders Guide to Resilience at Work is launched! I’m so excited to say, it is now available on Amazon.com. I was so excited I called a...
SloanGroupInternationalWhat’s Your Story?Every day we create narratives around events that happen to us. If they are bad, the tapes that run through are mind are usually, Oh my gosh, this is so toug...
SloanGroupInternationalDo You Think You Should Go It Alone?None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us. —Thurgood Ma...
SloanGroupInternationalIs Your Glass Half Full?Optimism People are afraid of optimism. They know the value of it, but don’t want to get their hopes up too much, just in case things don’t work out. Expecti...
SloanGroupInternationalResilience at Work: Announcing the RAW-Q!The Resilience at Work Questionnaire looks at our unique strengths in how we adapt to and bounce back from change and challenge. We can succumb to stresses a...
SloanGroupInternationalPurpose = PerformanceWorking just to pay the bills is uninspiring. For right or for wrong, we tend to get resentful that our lives require a humdrum job. Don’t think this doesn’t...
SloanGroupInternationalWhat is a High-Potential Leader and How do I Become One?Hello Readers! Most large organizations have what they would call a “high potential leader pool”, which is the base of talent they will draw from to succeed ...
SloanGroupInternationalNever Do This. (lessons from leadership mistakes)Hi everyone! We all know that no one is perfect, and everyone – even the most respected of leaders – makes mistakes. You can choose to ignore the mistakes yo...
SloanGroupInternationalGood Business ManifestoWhen we increase our capacity or productivity it should be in service of something greater than growing the bottom line. It should be in service of a better w...
SloanGroupInternationalOctober 2011 LeaderLensGreetings Dear Readers, I thought I’d pass it along for those who are interested in a short interview with me on the topic of resilience. Ashley is an amazin...
SloanGroupInternationalCelebrating Thanksgiving – At WorkToday we had a regular semi-monthly conference call for my team, and we opted to focus our meeting on the same updates we normally would (sales, new policies...
SloanGroupInternationalInnovation Now!As a tribute to Steve Jobs, I want to throw a little gasoline on the fire of his passing – let’s light up the sky with some innovation a’la’ Jobs!! As many...
SloanGroupInternationalGoodbye, And Thanks for all the Fish.Subject: Goodbye To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work...
