Last week I shared with you a series of CEO quotes that came from the most recent CEO Connection Boot Camp in New York City. At these day-long events, CEOs of companies with more than $100 million in revenues gather to discuss their most pressing challenges, and to share experiences and advice. From these discussions […]
Yesterday I shared with you 10 Insightful Social Media Quotes from Smart CEOs, which were reflective of the social media conversation that we had at our most recent CEO Connection event in New York City. I mentioned that as the organization’s Chief Relationship Officer, I have the opportunity to meet with small, intimate groups of these executives five times a year in […]
At last week’s Leadership Chat we focused on the art of praise in leadership development. We talked about how praise has the ability to transform our perspective on our company, our role, our team and even the mission we take on as leaders. This week, Steve Woodruff and I would like to switch gears and […]
Margie Clayman, my fellow blogger and Twitter friend who I have come to respect tremendously, mentioned in her response to my post earlier this week entitled, “Leadership Development: Mastering the Powerful Art of Praise,” that how we accept praise as leaders is worth close examination. I couldn’t agree with her more. How we accept praise […]
We’ve all experienced the power of praise in our careers. It has the ability to transform our perspective on our company, our role, our team and even our leadership mission. In my own experience, praise well-delivered has helped assure me I am on the right path in a variety of important ways. It has empowered […]
At one of our recent CEO Connection Boot Camps a bit of a debate ignited over the topic of trust in leadership: is it given or is it earned? Some of the executives felt, “clearly, trust is earned.” One CEO in particular felt very strongly that it is given by choice. He went on to […]
I wrote a post a few months ago entitled, “The Number One Thing CEOs Wish They’d Done Differently.” In that post I talked about how invariably when CEOs are asked, “What’s the one thing you wish you’d done differently when you took your role” they say, “I wish I’d moved faster on talent decisions.” You […]
There is no escaping the fact that when we show up for work and for our leadership roles, we bring the entirety of ourselves to the table. We bring our convictions, our strengths, our fears and our weaknesses, along with our insecurities, knowledge of our past failures, our pride in past accomplishments and our desire […]
I had the sincere pleasure this past week of attending the CEO Connection Spring Forum, Dinner and CEO Boot Camp in New York City. Highlights from the Forum and Dinner included a round table discussion led by Matthew Bishop, the NY Bureau Chief for The Economist, entitled, “The Road from Ruin: How to Succeed in […]
This post was originally written for and published at Danny Brown’s Blog, but I wanted to share it with my readers here as well! I just spent two full days in a phenomenal leadership simulation program entitled, “Magnetic Leadership” that was conceived, created and offered by Profitability Business Simulations. I had the privilege of playing […]