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 […]
Many people will be writing blog posts this week about the importance of giving thanks and about something special in their lives that they are particularly grateful for. I thought about writing a post like that because there are many changes taking place in my life right now and I feel very thankful for doors that […]
Tom Martin is one sweetheart of a Social Media Consultant. I realized this when he reached out to my Twitter-friend-turned-real-life-friend Lisa Diomede and me and asked us to co-hostess the inaugural #Cocktails4Causes at The Drake Hotel here in Chicago. You see, Tom and The Drake came up with a brilliant idea – tap into the social media […]
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 […]