Your Greatest Source of Influence
Your character is your greatest source of influence, no matter what your role or position. Your character is the expression of who you are. And influential character is built on a foundation of integrity. I have never facilitated the process of identifying values...
Help Employees Turn the Job They Have Into a Job They Love
Guest Post by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans Celebrating the release of the 5th edition of the bestseller Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em: Getting Good People to Stay by Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, which provides twenty-six strategies to keep talented employees...
Change Your Story, Change Your Organization
Guest Post by Peggy Holman Like a great wave, cultural stories carry us along, creating a coherent view of our world. For example, the phrase the “American Dream” evokes a story that has inspired generations to believe that no matter who they are, by working hard,...
Heart Based Leadership Interview
What is one characteristic every leader should possess? What do you think is the biggest challenge facing leaders today? These are some of the interview questions I was asked. I was honored when Lolly Daskal, a leadership expert I highly respect, asked to interview me...
The Ups and Downs of Delegating
Where Do You Sit On the Scale? Are you under-delegating? Are you a control-freak? Are you delegating too much? Are you an absentee manager? Are you erratic in doing both? Are you a seagull manager? Problems arise when you are too far on either end of the scale. When...
How to Create a Shared Vision That Works
The Full Steam Ahead! Roadmap This is a "how to" post - for leaders and team members who want to create a shared vision. Over the years I have written blog posts that provide an explanation of each of these steps. Here I connect the dots by linking those posts with...
Three Leadership Principles for Times of Chaos
Guest post by Bob Miglani Walk into a business planning meeting, visit a customer, look at a forecast and all we see is uncertainty on the horizon these days. Coupled with unpredictability, the sheer complexity of global business and the speed of it all, and it feels...
Try Collaborative Change for a Change
If you are tired of "trickle-down" change, consider using a collaborative change process where a large slice of your organization comes together for real conversation and to make decisions about your collective future in real-time. This kind of high-involvement...
My Top 10 Blog Posts of 2013
It feels like a déjà vu. As 2013 draws to a close, here I am again sitting by a warm fire on a wintery Sunday night in New England, just as I did exactly a year ago, reflecting on the year and taking the opportunity to identify my top posts. Again, I have turned this...
Pause Before You Plan
This is a lovely moment. The darkest day of the darkest week of the year in the northern hemisphere. It is the moment before the balance shifts and light begins to overtake darkness. On the winter solstice, the rhythm of the sun pauses as it changes direction...
How To Become Your Own Successor
Guest Post by Bruce Rosenstein Most people are familiar with succession planning for an organization. Who is going to follow you as a leader once it is time for you to be replaced, and what must be done to prepare that person? Succession planning is undeniably...
The Images We Hold Create Our Reality
When I ask people to describe what it would look like if there were world peace, it's hard for them to conjure up specific images or descriptions. However, they easily provide vivid descriptions of what a post-World War III world would look like. All they have to do...