SloanGroupInternationalDifficult People.Difficult people are everywhere. You may even be one of them sometimes! John is a new employee in the office. This is his first job, out of school. He’s youn...
SloanGroupInternationalAre you an Optimist?Imagine you are 18, a bomb goes off on the humvee you are driving in Iraq. A million thoughts are going through your head. You aren’t even supposed to be her...
SloanGroupInternationalWe should all be more like Gumby.If we go to the dictionary, we’ll find that it’s the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretc...
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...
SloanGroupInternationalLemonade and the Resilience at Work Questionnaire – NOW AVAILABLE!Greetings compatriots! It is my distinct pleasure to announce that we have now got Lemonade: The Leaders Guide to Resilience at Work available on Amazon.com ...
SloanGroupInternationalAuthor Interview: LESSGreetings dear reader! Every so often over the next few months I’ll be interviewing authors of business books, articles or leadership tools I recommend, all ...
SloanGroupInternationalSocial Media Tips from Author/Coach/Internet Entrepreneur Suzi PomerantzGood business readers are asking for more tips and information on social media strategy, and who better to comment than our own resident social media guru, S...
SloanGroupInternationalLessons that Bear RepeatingYou know that thing you always have to remember that comes up again and again in your career – that thing that you can’t help but have to deal with at every ...
SloanGroupInternationalInterview with the author of “Leaders: Their Stories, Their Words”Donna Karlin (no relation…but people do ask!) has a new book out, and I was lucky enough to get a few insights from the author. Donna has a unique viewpoint...
SloanGroupInternationalUnemployment #s Call for UNFEAR Across the USAFrom CBS news on June 13, 2011: “About 6.2 million Americans, 45.1 percent of all unemployed workers in this country, have been jobless for more than six mo...
SloanGroupInternationalUNFEAR Practice #2 – Build Relationships & CommunityIn order to activate UNFEAR we need to practice! One of the four keys to UNFEAR is building relationships and community, and I got to focus on this practice...
SloanGroupInternationalHow do you use the four practices of UNFEAR?In the first blog of this series, Fear at Work: is your team in shock, I asked you to take a moment to identify your own ‘being state’ and to think about how...
SloanGroupInternationalShackleton and UNFEARLast week I introduced the concept of my book, UNFEAR, which will be released this autumn. UNFEAR : \ ən-fir\ confidence in one’s ability to overcome the odd...
SloanGroupInternationalFear at Work: is your team in shock?Are you leading a team in turmoil, or looking for a way to survive business and work challenges? You may be going through change—asking yourself questions ab...
SloanGroupInternationalUnfear: Facing Change in an Era of UncertaintyNever fear dear reader – the book I’ve been working on for a year (one of the many reasons I have JUST begun using this blog) is DONE! Unfear: Facing Change ...
