The media

Women Leadership and Change Management

22 Feb, 2010Accountability, Avoider, Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diversity, Education, Ethics, Executive Teams, History, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Marital coaching, Media, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, The media, Transformation, Trust, Uncategorized, Women in the workplace, Workplace Relationships

  This is a time for women to pat themselves on the back for all the successes that have come in the last 60 years. The role of women has changed dramatically, and it has been mostly a quiet revolution. Share This

Read More

Teachables from Toyota

10 Feb, 2010Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Economy, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Media, Money, Patterns, Super Achiever, The media, Trust

                                 Share This

Read More

John Edwards and Leadership Values

22 Jan, 2010Accountability, Avoider, Business, Honor, Leaders, Leadership, Marital coaching, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Political distrust, Politics, Power, Psychology, The media, Transformation, Trust

The saga of John Edwards is more tragic than it is disgusting. Here is a man who has lied and lied, not just to the world, but most importantly, to himself. And my big question is why we, as a nation, are so gullible? Why did we take so long...

Read More

Elegant Leadership and Risk Taking

19 Jan, 2010Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Media, Money, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Super Achiever, Team Building, The media

Recently Jeff Zucker, President and CEO of General Electric Co’s NBC Universal Entertainment, told PBS interviewer Charlie Rose: “It’s the sign of a leader to step up and say you know when something’s not working, and have the guts to reverse it”. Share This

Read More

Elegant leadership: Higher Standards

8 Jan, 2010Accountability, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diversity, Education, Ethics, Health, History, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Media, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, The media

When is enough enough? Cultural diversity is here to stay, and in order for the ordinary individual to become aware of our actions, and how they affect others, our "leaders" must first step up to the plate and take responsibility for their actions!

Read More

Elegant Leadership: Leadership and Money

4 Jan, 2010Accountability, Business, Economy, Education, Ethics, Health, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, PatternAware, The media

Hope your holidays brought you gobs of joy and heaps of happiness. Did you also get the “stuff” you had hoped for? I have been asking lots of folks the question about how this holiday season differed from past ones where there seemed to be an endless pitcher pouring out...

Read More

Leadership Motivation

30 Dec, 2009Accountability, Business, Coaching, Consulting, Ethics, Honor, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Money, PatternAware, Patterns, The media, Uncategorized

I was at a seminar for authors on how to sell more books. Do I want to sell more books?  Of  course! Yet, there are so many shady ways to go about becoming a “best seller” or, let me put it this way, a “best seller for a day” I...

Read More

Leadership Transgressions

8 Dec, 2009Accountability, Avoider, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Education, Ethics, Health, Honor, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Marital coaching, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Super Achiever, The media

Are leaders measured by different standards than the rest of us? If not, they should be! They are the ones who set the standards of what matters at work, or in society, and if they are in the “Follow me, I know the best way to go” mode, then we...

Read More

Leadership and Group Power

8 Oct, 2009Accountability, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Education, Employers, Ethics, Honor, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Media, The media, Transformation

As I explore the essence of leadership I hear a similar thought from many of my colleagues that goes like this “Too much retread, too much superficial same old same old”. Share This

Read More

The Power of Story

9 Sep, 2009Accountability, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Fear, Health, History, Honor, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Media, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Reflections, Team Building, The media, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

Yesterday I offered free, signed copies of my book “Don’t Bring It to Work: Breaking the Family Patterns that Limit Success”  to the first three people who had a life changing story and a sentence that underlined what had happened. Share This

Read More
12