Archive for April, 2010

Work is More than a Job

28 Apr, 2010Boss, Business, Character, Communication, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Executive Teams, Family Business, Family Conflict, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Patterns, Total Leaders, Trust, Workplace Relationships

Where do you spend most of your day? What do you think about much of the time? Why do you do it? Whenever I ask people about their experiences at work I still hear the “It pays the mortgage, it pays for my kid’s college tuition, it pays for my...

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Leadership Strategies: Antidote to Blaming and Justifying

27 Apr, 2010Communication, Family Conflict, Patterns

Remember the kid’s song “Who took the cookies from the cookie jar? Not me!!!” We’ve all been there. The other day I watched my granddaughter take (actually grab) my sunglasses from her younger brother. I then watched her put them on a table and look intently at the roses in...

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Leadership and Post-Earth Day

26 Apr, 2010Business, Character, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Executive Teams, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, PatternAware, Patterns, Reflections, Women in the workplace

Al Gore continues to take a leadership role that may well be bigger than if he had become president. He has not shirked his responsibility for being a spokesperson for what truly matters most, the care and well-being of the planet. Last Thursday, Earth Day he talked about the fact...

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Why meditation has a place in business

23 Apr, 2010Business, Character, Collaboration, Communication, Health, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Stress, Total Leaders, Workplace Relationships

I love to visit Google for many reasons; the beautiful campus, the creative folks biking from building to building, the respectful and helping nature of the co-workers. I especially like to spend time with my friend Chade-Meng Tan who has been with Google since the early days. He is a...

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Leadership Conflict Turns Destructive

21 Apr, 2010Accountability, Business, Character, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Economy, Ethics, Executive Teams, Family Business, Family Conflict, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Media, Money, Patterns, Stress, Trust, Workplace Relationships

  I found this very good blog about the Toyota fiasco.  Please read and note my comments; I’d love to hear your thoughts. Article by Steve Tobak, The Corner Office Survival of the fittest requires conflict; that’s as true in the boardroom as it is in the wild. In that...

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Leadership and Education

19 Apr, 2010Character, Collaboration, Communication, Education, Educators, Ethics, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership in Schools

Colorado Senator Michael F. Bennett deserves to be classified as an elegant leader. The definition of an elegant leader is one who can cut through the b.s. and see the essence of a situation and then find ways to make things happen. Senator Bennett is the former Superintendent of the...

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What It Means to Be a Total Leader

12 Apr, 2010Character, Communication, Decision Making, Diversity, Education, Ethics, Executive Teams, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Reflections, Total Leaders

There are so many words to describe leaders. In all the leadership development programs I have researched there are certain words that are on most web sites. Strong leadership is everywhere, so is powerful, committed, and of course, great leadership is always on the list. Lately I have seen a...

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Metrics Without Meaning

8 Apr, 2010Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Leaders, Metrics, Stress, Workplace Relationships

Did you ever sit in a meeting where lots of numbers were thrown around and you sat there thinking “So what”?  Worse yet, did you ever sit in a meeting where the metrics were used as tools of punishment; where the leader would lower his or her voice and whoever...

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Leadership Strategies: Getting and Giving

7 Apr, 2010Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Education, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Patterns, Reflections, Team Building, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

Last week we had an amazing group of young people at our retreat center, The Country Place Retreat and Conference Center, in the Pocono Mountains of Pa.; they give hope for the future! They were inner city teens from New York who all had difficult times as children. Yet, the...

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Leading by Example

5 Apr, 2010Accountability, Avoider, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Ethics, Fear, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Media, Reflections, Trust

We are all waking up from a long, deep sleep, the sleep of denial and avoidance. The internet has opened the way for us to be connected to what is “right leadership”. We all have the opportunity and responsibility to speak out against abuses that are, sadly as old as time....

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