By Lisa Petrilli I have worked with – and for – leaders who have led from love and several who don’t believe the word belongs in business. The difference is utterly remarkable. There are three truths of leading with the heart that crystallize when you’ve been blessed to work with someone who opens their heart to […]
By Lisa Petrilli I have very strong opinions regarding the importance of vision in leadership, and if you’ve been reading my blog since its inception you’ll understand the depth of the truth in that statement. As you may know, my very first blog post – which published on May 18th of this year – was titled, “What […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 This post is serving as the platform from which Steve Woodruff and I will launch #LeadershipChat on Tuesday evening, October 12th at 8:00 pm Eastern Time. As co-conspirators on this epic (we hope!) adventure we talked about how we wanted to launch this chat – the topic of which is vitally important to both […]
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 […]
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 […]