In my recent post entitled, “Leadership Guiding Principles of a Successful CEO,” I shared with you how one very successful CEO makes the book, “Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times” required reading for every member of his Leadership Development Team. I’ve had this book on my bedside table for the past few months, […]
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 […]
Are you a “magnetic leader,” the kind that draws others to you? If not, are there behaviors and skills that you can work on that would enable you to be more magnetic whilst driving results? Those questions were recently put to 24 high-ranking corporate leaders that I had the sincere pleasure of spending two days […]
If you were given the role of CEO of a company and put into a high-stress situation where you had 10 minutes to: allocate your limited resources (time, people, raw materials…) strategically deliver innovative, high-quality products get the products to your customers on time fix any product failures and ultimately meet all of the terms […]
I was having lunch recently with a CEO of a private company who I am fortunate to have as a friend and he mentioned the concept of “valor in leadership.” He was concerned that it was, in essence, becoming a lost art. When I gave my mind permission to wander off to images of valor […]
By Lisa Petrilli Steve Woodruff and I were very purposeful about starting the New Year at #LeadershipChat with a deep dive into leadership and vision. You all know by now that understanding, creating and nurturing vision is a passion of mine and I was honored to get perspectives on the topic from such luminous individuals […]
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 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 […]
Last Thursday one of my readers, Heather Hindle, shared with you “The Best Corporate Visioning Story – Ever,” a story about how she participated in an experience named Odyssey 2000 – which she had originally shared with me briefly in a comment on my “How to Screw Your Business in One Easy Step” post. On Monday in “Leadership 101: Values […]
In Thursday’s post, “The Best Corporate Visioning Story – Ever,” Heather Hindle shared with you her experiences participating in Maritime Life’s Odyssey 2000, a visioning initiative in which all 1,000 Maritime Life employees participated. Today I’m honored to share with you the first half of my interview with Maritime Life’s CEO, Bill Black, detailing his perspective on what was behind […]