Leadership Resilience Quote of the Day
Good morning dear readers. Whatever your political persuasion, I want to share a quote from our President’s speech of last night – I was...
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Values 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...
Resilience & Positivity
Our 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...
Lemonade 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...
Purpose = Performance
Working just to pay the bills is uninspiring. For right or for wrong, we tend to get resentful that our lives require a humdrum job....
What 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...
Never 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...
October 2011 LeaderLens
Greetings 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....
Celebrating Thanksgiving – At Work
Today 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...
Goodbye, 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...
Happy 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...
Lessons that Bear Repeating
You 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...
Losing Our Listening?
Executive coaching is an act of inquiring, feeding back, and eliciting excellence, often with some wise counsel thrown in for good...
Never Give Up
I enjoy poetry – particularly when I need to shift my thinking or do a reset. Someone sent me this poem during my adoption process which...
Scandalous!
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_scandals Please discuss.
Working Together: A Poem
Working Together We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in...
A Quick Guide: Leading Virtual Teams
I run a virtual organization, and although it sometimes presents challenges, it has been a great learning environment for our consulting...
Leadership in Action: Three-Year-Old Style
Greetings 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....
Interview 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...
The Blame Game: An Interview with Author Ben Dattner
Greetings dear reader! Every so often over the next few months I’ll be interviewing authors of business books I recommend, all of whom...