You may have seen a few days ago that there was a debate in the media about whether or not agents involved in the ATF “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking investigation had been “promoted out” of their former roles. I won’t pretend to know enough about the facts of the situation to comment on this particular case, […]
I was watching a financial show on TV recently and heard a commentator discuss a study that showed if you’d invested $1 in the stock market roughly 50 years ago, it would be worth a bit more that $13 today. Your return would have been higher than inflation. But if you’d invested that same $1 and taken […]
This week on Leadership Chat author Becky Carroll will be talking about leadership lessons from her new book, “The Hidden Power of Your Customers.” Her book is all about how critically important it is for us as leaders to focus on our existing customers, and to nurture relationships with existing customers to create loyal brand evangelists. […]
Tuesday night in Leadership Chat as we talked about how great leaders affect work-life balance, we touched on the concept of “lack.” A fear of lack (lack of money, lack of financial independence or wealth, lack of confidence in our companies, our futures and our children’s futures) is making it hard for many leaders to sleep these […]
A wonderful, new opportunity for those of you interested in the Magnetic Leadership Program offered by ProfitAbility Business Simulations has just been announced – and I wanted to share it with all of you! Molex, located in Lisle, IL just outside Chicago, had decided to sponsor the program at its headquarters. They have enough space […]
I don’t see it, at least not clearly, even though I continue to try… It’s very difficult to see how people who subscribe to the views of the opposing political party actually view the world in the way they do. The political rhetoric during the last few weeks has made this clearer to me than ever before. And […]
It’s summertime. When I was growing up that meant playing outside all day while my “stay-at-home” mom kept an eye on me, my siblings, and the rest of the neighborhood kids as we played on our “Jungle Gym” in our backyard. When my dad got home at 6:00, dinner would be mostly prepared except for what was […]
I had the genuine honor and pleasure of working with Wally Bock over the last week as he prepared for and then brilliantly served as Guest Host for Leadership Chat on Tuesday night. Our Topic was, “Military Leadership Lessons We Are Truly Meant to Learn.” Wally has an exceptional summary of important military history and leadership lessons that […]
I had the great honor of hearing two recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor speak on Friday at a public event in my small, suburban Chicago community. It was a tremendously moving, probably once-in-a-lifetime experience. According to the Medal of Honor Society: The Medal of Honor is the highest award for valor in action against an […]
I came across an article this weekend about a recent study done at Northwestern, one of my alma maters, that suggests “Leadership remains a man’s world.” The leadership study examined the extent to which stereotypes of leaders are culturally masculine. It concluded that, “All 3 paradigms demonstrated overall masculinity of leader stereotypes.” Now, it did go on to say, […]