By Lisa Petrilli I grew up with my dad working for a Fortune 500 company in a number of management and subsequent senior leadership positions. Although he came home at dinnertime carrying a briefcase, in reality he left “work” at the office. Yes, he would get some paperwork done while my siblings and I did homework […]
By Lisa Petrilli I’m feeling deliciously inspired this morning…and it’s all due to #LeadershipChat. I must admit, I had hoped that by teaming with Steve Woodruff to create #LeadershipChat – a new, weekly opportunity for leaders across the globe to get together via Twitter and talk about the challenges and excitement surrounding our leadership roles – that collectively […]
Or do they? To fuel debate for the October 19th edition of #LeadershipChat Steve Woodruff and I have chosen the article entitled, “Girls Rule” by Michael K. Ozanian at Forbes.com. The gist of the article comes in the very first paragraph: “Which companies perform better for investors–those led by women or those by men? In our […]
By Lisa Petrilli In my post entitled, “How Vision Drives $Millions: A Real-World Example,” I wrote about my experience as a brand new Marketing Manager at Baxter addressing a major PR attack by Greenpeace. To cut to the chase, my team responded in a much smarter, much more visionary way than Nestle did recently, and as a result we […]
by Lisa Petrilli… The ability to lead is a rare gift. The opportunity to lead is just as precious. Have you ever thought about whether you’re worthy of these gifts? I had the honor and privilege to be asked to speak at an organ donation dinner and celebration last night. The gentleman before me on the […]
by Lisa Petrilli Today is the Harvest Moon, generally defined as the full moon closest to the time of the Autumnal Equinox. This year is actually quite special – the full moon occurs very early today, the very day of the Autumnal Equinox. Evidently this moon was named as such because before our ancestors had […]
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… 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 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 […]