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Leadership and Your Health
“People spend more time planning their VACATIONS each year than they spend on planning for their care and well-being the other 51 WEEKS.” –Thomas Leonard There are many dimensions of health including: mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, environmental and more. It’s pretty self-evident that the healthier you are, the better you can… Read more
It’s 2012 – Make It Happen!
To move into a New Year powerfully and to create the results you want there are some key steps to take. The first is creating an “elegant ending” to the past. Last week we posted about “letting go of 2011,” and included a free download of a worksheet to help you do it. Now it’s time to move on to envisioning and documenting your… Read more
Ready for 2012? First You Will Need to Let Go of 2011
It’s the time of year when many of us conduct annual rituals that may include everything from strategic planning sessions for business to making New Year’s resolutions or setting Bold Goals for 2012 and beyond. We’ve found any such process to be much harder to do when we haven’t completed and let go of the past. It’s very difficult,… Read more
Leadership: Are You In Your Comfort Zone?
The term “comfort zone” has become a popular way to describe how we are feeling about various activities we are taking part in – “that pushed me way out of my comfort zone,” or “that was not in my comfort zone,” are pretty common phrases these days. When we talk about our “comfort zone” what we are talking about is our… Read more
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Is There A Common Language for Leadership?
Have you ever wondered whether there is any common language that exists for all humans and, if so, how knowing about that language might help you be a more effective as a leader? Well, there is and researchers have called it “deep metaphors.” In the November/December 2008 issue of Spirituality & Health magazine, Managing Editor Betsy… Read more
5 Top CEO Challenges
Awhile ago I was forwarded an email written by Shama Kabani. Here is the opening of the email: “I just got back from The Leaders of Tomorrow conference at St. Gallen in Switzerland. It was a fantastic trip, and I gleaned some great nuggets of business wisdom from the world’s best. One particular session I really enjoyed was presented by… Read more
Leadership: The OODA Loop
Being powerful in translating intentions into reality and sustaining them requires presence and adaptability in the face of life’s circumstances – circumstances that can change every moment. Where can we turn for tools to support ourselves? The United States military has long taught our special ops teams and fighter pilots a thought… Read more
The End of Management
In a Wall Street Journal article, “The End of Management,” Alan Murray makes a compelling argument that “modern management is nearing its existential moment.” He focuses on the last 100 years or so when large organizations developed to organize people and allocate resources for tasks that seemingly could be done much more effectively than… Read more
So You Want Things to Change?
Most of the time when consultants, coaches or other “outside interventions” are tapped by leaders of organizations it’s because there is some type of crisis or turning point. Usually “the pain” has become high and the solutions to the issues just aren’t apparent to leadership. There are various causes of business pain, but the one we… Read more
Business Leaders, Pay Attention to Lady Gaga
I have been reflecting on our recent blog post featuring General Stanley McChrystal and his insights into generational differences in the armed forces, (among other things). His key questions included - how will senior leadership maintain credibility, authority, and confidence when junior people know more than they do about new tactics, new… Read more