There’s a role every single leader should play in 2012 if they genuinely want to lead highly productive, effective and successful teams during the course of the year – the Synergist. According to Les McKeown, author of the newly-published book The Synergist, the role of the Synergist is the single component that makes the difference between […]
I had the good fortune to be sent the book, “The Final Summit” by Andy Andrews, an author I had not read before but whose words I found moving and whose story I found captivating. In “The Final Summit” the main character, David Ponder, is brought from Earth to Heaven by the Archangel Gabriel to […]
There are probably as many ways to answer this question as there are professionals on this planet. I say that because I believe that how we feel about our feelings, and about the expression of our feelings, has a lot to do with our childhoods, how we were raised, and he sum total of our life’s […]
Steve Woodruff and I launched Leadership Chat on Twitter a year ago this week, on Tuesday the 12th of October. Thinking back as we celebrate our one-year anniversary, we didn’t really know what we were getting ourselves into but we believed in the Leadership Chat vision, partly described as: Leadership Chat is a place where […]
What’s the best time to ask your boss for a raise, or your CEO to fund an initiative that’s critically important to you? Early morning. At least that’s what I’m deducing having read, “Do You Suffer from Decision Fatigue?” by John Tierney in the New York Times. The article looks at a study of prisoner […]
In Leadership Chat this week we focused on a variety of challenges that leaders face when it comes to promoting individuals on their teams. I asked the following question, Realistic or not to think leaders will work to help entire team be highly successful in each indiv role & be promotable? #LeadershipChat and was surprised the […]
Yes, I realize I am a slow-adopter when it comes to technology. I took my first GPS-aided road trip this past weekend and the device literally drove me mad. I believe it was through this experience that I came to realize why the topic of Visionary Leadership is such a passion of mine: I simply […]
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 […]
I rarely, if ever, talk about religion on this blog, largely because I’ve never felt compelled to do so but also because I have so much respect for all religions and wouldn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable. But there was something that Fr. Fragomeni said today at the exquisite, Italian Catholic church I attend that […]
I am thrilled to announce that the Magnetic Leadership Program that I experienced and lauded effusively last month in my, “Five Signs You’re a Magnetic Leader” post is now available to you and your leadership teams! Due to the tremendous success of the beta program in which participants said things like, “I have never been […]