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Katie Couric, leadership, and telling the truth
When an icon like Katie Couric tells a personal story does it really matter? Is she telling a long buried truth to help people or merely to boost her ratings? Are those in the media models of leadership or merely just talking heads? Couric did put the spotlight on a...
Read MoreLeadership mandate: Carpe the opportunity
What does it mean to seize the opportunity? It has to do with taking risk and believing in you. Sadly, most of us were programmed with the ideas of “don’t rock the boat” and that it is “better to be safe than sorry”. Perhaps a boring way to live. Now,...
Read MoreLeadership development: Search inside for success
I would like to suggest an important book that will change your life. Now, I know life changing claims are made every day and mostly nothing happens. With this book, however, I make a solemn promise that if you read and breathe, you will change for the better. Chade-Meng Tan...
Read MoreThree leadership tactics and what to retool when facing change
In the face of relentless, unforgiving, unusual, and reverberating change what do you do? Some of us pull the covers over our heads and hope it will go away. Others simply ball their hands into fists and attempt to fight the mostly invisible forces that are like fireflies in the...
Read MoreLeadership development: Groaning about organizational change
Sleepy summer is gone and now things are ramping up at work. Change is in the air. Team building is in full swing as supervisors and team leaders cheer on their direct reports to be the best they can be. New ideas have been incubating and are now ready...
Read MoreLeadership and love: Chris Christie is confused
The Republican Convention created a clash of the titans as Ann Romney talked about “The Power of Love” and Governor Christie talked about “Respect over Love”. Ah, love. It is amorphous and mysterious. It is all around us all the time. However, when it comes to leadership what really does...
Read MoreThe Many Meanings of a Super Achiever
Perhaps that question sounds like it is founded on circular logic, but I assure you it is not. Being a Super Achiever may, in fact often does, lead to super achievements. It is this very reason that the Super Achiever can be one of the most incessant and destructive behavior patterns....
Read MoreWhen Will Leaders Ever Get IT
We need PEACE-TOOLS NOT PISTOLS. We are and will continue to mourn, as D.L. Hughley suggests until we have such an outpouring of rage that we start to adopt powerful and meaningful programs for all parents to be there for the children. And, whether we birth them or not, they...
Read MoreMore to IT than You Think
Here is an excellent article that is so much more than about feminism and how males view it. This is about core issues in relationships. It is about how we find the way OUT that is taught in our Total Leadership Connections program :First OBSERVE patterns, then UNDERSTAND where they...
Read MoreNew Leadership Perspectives
Sometimes we just need to turn our ideas on their heads to find better solutions. This “tongue in cheek” (what the heck does that mean anyway?), “unusual” way of thinking may just have seeds for new thinking. Food for thought! Put all the old people in jail! WHAT...
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