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How do we make positive change happen? I want to start by thanking all of you who responded to my post last week about Taking a New View of Leadership where I talked about my personal reaction to the Auschwitz Exhibition in Madrid Spain. Watching, with renewed anger, the human inhumanity of so many decades ago that still…
Read MoreToday, I’d like to take a different perspective on leadership. It’s about you and you and you and me. It’s about how to bring our voices into the conversation and how we each can play an important role, regardless of our circumstances. My husband Herb and I recently returned from Madrid and Bilbao Spain. This…
Read MoreSummary: The word success, like trust and love, has many definitions. It depends on your family heritage, cultural perspective, and often crises that form you to be who you are. In leadership, most equate money and power as the keys to the kingdom. Here, one man who decided to look deeper for a more robust…
Read MoreDid you know that Gallop reports that 74 percent of employees feel disconnected and missing out on important company information and news? Better yet, did you know most employees are ready to dig in and be amazing employees, at least for the first three months, and then they start to slack off and finally get…
Read MoreDo you go through an internal battle when it’s time for a change? Do others resist your new attitudes and behaviors? Do you just want to go back to the good old days and stay in your zone of comfort? Here is what I received from a colleague who was promoted to a senior leadership…
Read MoreI recently worked with a client and the questions he had were around building trustworthy relationships at work which got me thinking… Who do you trust? And more importantly, why do you trust one person and not another? Like love, trust is amorphous. You can’t touch it, smell it or see it. Yet, most of…
Read MoreHere is what many people have emailed me regarding toxic work environments, and they all sound like they work in the same company. The only difference is the geographic location, the same toxic work environment seems to pop up everywhere. These companies are scattered around the U.S., actually around the world from Pittsburgh to Paris,…
Read MoreI am always struck by the battle each of us must go through as we open the door to the next level of development. It’s time to see things with new eyes, yet, there is a lurking sense that if we stray too far from what we know, well, we might fall an shatter. I…
Read MoreDo you ever just wish that you could have a moratorium on change? That maybe, just for a month you could count on things staying the same? That you could depend on your work colleagues to show up and do their jobs so you could do yours? That sales would percolate and products get shipped…
Read MoreIt’s tough to confront people. Well, at least that’s what 90% of the population says. Is your tendency to avoid or even worse, deny, that difficult issues exist at your office? It’s so much easier to blame others for being impossible to work with. We live in a “he did it, she did it, they…
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