I caught a brief discussion on TV the other day between four religious scholars who were discussing the leadership of Moses, Jesus, Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. What they felt was one of the most important similarities among these leaders was that they were all “called” to their leadership roles – and, for the […]
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit East Berlin during the summer of 1987, just two years before the Berlin Wall would be torn down. We’d crossed through “Checkpoint Charlie” from the Allied side to the East German side and almost immediately I could feel my body reacting to the change – it […]
When it comes to leadership one thing in particular divides the gods from the mere mortals, the men from the boys, the women from the girls: the ability to decide and to then commit to your decision. I’ve heard the argument that it’s harder to make decisions nowadays because of the complexity of the world, […]
by Lisa Petrilli… Because he’s brilliant and he’s right. Let me back up a step. Last week Joe wrote a post entitled, “Be a Marketing Specialist, Not a Generalist” for the Marketing Executives Networking Group’s MENG Blend Blog, for which I am the Executive Editor. I loved the post and wanted to share with you […]
by Lisa Petrilli… I experienced a setback in my life last week. The nature of the setback is, in and of itself, irrelevant. What was important and revealing to me was my knee-jerk reaction, the kind of reaction which did not serve me and, quite honestly, I had thought I was past… 1. I racked my […]
I’m a raving fan of the Brains on Fire movement. I had the honor to be invited to join them in July for their annual FIRE Sessions – a day when they bring in marketing experts who are at the leading edge of the marketing discipline to share their insights and passion with Brains on Fire’s own community, […]
I get “pitched” a lot. It’s interesting because in most cases I don’t think the other person is really thinking about it as “pitching” me. Rather, they come to me with an idea or a suggestion of something they’d like to see happen which I have either some degree of control over or full control over, and they approach […]
I’ve come across a few vain executives lately. I won’t even call them leaders because I believe when vanity comes into play real leadership goes out the window. We all know who these executives are and what it feels like to be around them. We start to wonder how they actually finagled their way into their […]
Today it’s about the “Awakenings” more so than the “C-Level Strategies.” You see, yesterday afternoon I received an email from the Principal of our High School. He was informing the community that a high school boy – a senior – had committed suicide yesterday morning. It’s absolutely horrifying news. What makes it even more painful is that it’s […]
A friend once told me that I had the “Midas Touch.” At the time, seemingly everything I was involved with was “turning to gold” in some way. The term came up again recently and I began to reflect back on that time in my life. I was musing on what was so unique about it […]