SloanGroupInternationalLeadership Resilience Quote of the DayGood morning dear readers. Whatever your political persuasion, I want to share a quote from our President’s speech of last night – I was struck specifically w...
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 & 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
SloanGroupInternationalHappy Labor Day – Sort Of…While of course we’ve got an easy way to complain about this by blaming our politicians, it’s time to face up to what each of us do to make this problem wors...
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 ...
SloanGroupInternationalLosing Our Listening?Executive coaching is an act of inquiring, feeding back, and eliciting excellence, often with some wise counsel thrown in for good measure. At the core, it i...
SloanGroupInternationalNever Give UpI enjoy poetry – particularly when I need to shift my thinking or do a reset. Someone sent me this poem during my adoption process which was a four-year-long...
SloanGroupInternationalScandalous!Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_scandals Please discuss.
SloanGroupInternationalWorking Together: A PoemWorking Together We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in common cause, to pr...
SloanGroupInternationalA Quick Guide: Leading Virtual TeamsI run a virtual organization, and although it sometimes presents challenges, it has been a great learning environment for our consulting team to gather great...
SloanGroupInternationalLeadership in Action: Three-Year-Old StyleGreetings all, today after work I shifted identities to become Mommy, and I went to the children’s museum that’s close to where we live. I must comment on my...
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...
SloanGroupInternationalThe Blame Game: An Interview with Author Ben DattnerGreetings dear reader! Every so often over the next few months I’ll be interviewing authors of business books I recommend, all of whom are affiliated with Ka...
