So, let’s be honest, the last place you’d be likely to find me on a freezing cold, rain and wind-whipped afternoon in upstate South Carolina is in a deer stand out in the elements overlooking a gaggle of hunters shooting at sweet little birds with hunting dogs at their sides. And, if by some strange […]
Yes, I said tush. More importantly, I said “squelch.” Our topic for #LeadershipChat this week can be boiled down into this one word. It’s the essence of what happens when an emerging leader with energy and ideas and drive and maybe even bold vision collides with a resistant leadership team, organization or culture. I really struggled with […]
Last evening’s #LeadershipChat was, without a doubt, one of our most active chats to date, with insights and brilliant thoughts about the importance – and impact – of passion in leadership flying fast and furious. As I said in one of my tweets last evening, I absolutely adore the #LeadershipChat community that has formed and that continues […]
I spent most of the Thanksgiving holiday in the woods – in the “boonies” to be more precise – and my extended family spent a lot of time sitting around a very large, rustic, dining room table just talking and enjoying our time together. So, in anticipation of the #LeadershipChat topic for this week – the importance […]
As I mentioned in my last post, The Absolute Best Reason to Bring Values to Leadership, I am very fortunate and honored to have CEO Connection as one of my clients, and to work closely with member CEOs as Co-Chair of the Membership Committee. Last week we hosted one of our CEO Boot Camps here in […]
I am very blessed to have CEO Connection as one of my clients. It’s an organization connecting CEOs of companies with more than $100 million in revenues and I spend time with the CEOs early on in their membership as Co-Chair of the Membership Committee. One of the perks of the job is that I am […]
Sometimes things happen for a reason. I should have known when Steve Woodruff, my #LeadershipChat partner in crime, suggested the topic of vulnerability for tomorrow night’s chat that I would find myself over the past week feeling quite, unexpectedly, vulnerable. I think there are two kinds of vulnerability. The first – the kind I experienced […]
I was fortunate to have a truly amiable conversation with a CEO of a major retailer in Europe a few weeks ago. I was worried about the appointment because the first time we’d tried to meet – after numerous scheduling attempts – I’d had to take the call on my iPhone and, lo and behold, only 90 seconds into […]
By Lisa Petrilli I continue to be moved my the number of inspiring and genuinely insightful thoughts being shared at #LeadershipChat each week, even though the chat is still in its infancy. Even more striking is the fact that one of the wishes that Steve Woodruff and I went into this with – for a real […]
By Lisa Petrilli The picture you see is one I took personally on the Antietam Battlefield. The Battle of Antietam was fought on September 17, 1862 near Sharpsburg, Maryland and, according to Wikipedia, it was the first major battle of the Civil War to take place on Northern soil and was the bloodiest single-day battle in […]