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...
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...
SloanGroupInternationalA Picture is Worth a 1000 Words – This is what TEAMWORK looks like!NASA Team Celebrating Curiosity’s Touchdown! #NASA #results #teamwork
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
SloanGroupInternationalRemembrance, Community, and UnfearThank you to my friends, clients, and colleagues for your commitment to building relationship and community at work. Every day that we...
SloanGroupInternationalScary Job Numbers Call for UNFEARFrom the Times article: “The problem is less that companies are laying people off than that they are not hiring. Consumers and employers...
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...
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...
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...