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Leadership and Organic Soap

9 Apr, 2012Advice, Business, Character, Community Relationships, Ethics, Family Business, Family Conflict, History, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Patterns, Political distrust, Reflections, Relationships

I was taking a shower and suddenly the bottle of pure castile soap made with organic oils spoke to me. No, I really didn’t lose my mind; I merely realized that the soap I have loved for many years had a bigger story to tell. You see I had never...

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Real Leadership, Robert Reich, and Ending Apathy

17 Nov, 2011Accountability, Character, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Consulting, Economy, Education, Equality, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Management, Politics, Psychology, Relationships, Total Leaders, Transformation, Workplace Relationships, Young Leaders

The “new” politics is happening. It is a return, or maybe a new turn to participatory human scale democracy. It is what is blossoming all around this country, all around the world. Modern technology is being used for good, not just fun or stimulation. The world is coming together in...

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Leadership Development: What Do We Really Want to Develop?

24 May, 2011Accountability, Character, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict, Integrity, Leaders, motivation, Will Power

Lance Armstrong does not say he took anything to make him able to go faster, to be stronger. All he said is “I did not test positive”. What do we learn from competition? Is this where we get our self-esteem? What do we do when we lose? How do we handle setbacks? What does it mean when the mantra is “winning is everything”?. How far will you go to win? We need to start asking the hard questions before there will not be anyone left who is living life for the joy of it.

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Leadership Strategies: Time to Dig Deeper

20 Oct, 2010Business, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict

Mad Men is like giving protein to a candy starved nation. The articles that are being written give us all important ideas to dialogue about what it means to be a man at work, what it means to be a woman on the job, and especially what still needs attention...

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Teaching Leadership One Idea at a Time

25 Jun, 2010Boss-Employee Relationship, Business, Character, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, motivation, Reflections, Relationships, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

I have recently joined some Linked-In groups. I am not the best group joiner on the planet. I love dialogue and connecting, yet often find formal structures often feel too narrow for me. I guess the rebel pattern of wanting and needing lots of freedom to think what I want...

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Do Exec's Make Lousy Spouses

23 Jun, 2010Boss, Business, Collaboration, Community Relationships, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Economy, Family Conflict, Health, History, Leaders, Leadership, Money, Patterns, Reflections, Relationships, Stress, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

Sometimes I think we are looking at little tidbits of information hoping that will give us easy answers. Partly we all have been trained to sort and judge, sort and judge, sort and judge. It is initially more complex to look at the whole enchilada, the whole system for answers....

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Leadership Kaleidoscope

18 Jun, 2010Accountability, Advice, Boss, Character, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Diversity, Executive Teams, Fear, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Media, motivation, Nature, PatternAware, Patterns, Reflections, Relationships, The Country Place, Total Leaders, Trust, Workplace Relationships

We just finished one of the most rewarding retreats of…. forever! Big statement; now I will explain. For the past year we have been working with school district administrators in suburban Pennsylvania. That includes 21 men and women who care about education and care about children. June 2009 was their...

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Leadership Strategies: It’s About Time

7 Jun, 2010Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, leadership development, Leadership Strategies, Patterns, Reflections, Relationships, Stress, Total Leaders, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

Do you feel short changed when it comes to time? Ever joke the best gift you could get is a few extra hours tacked onto the day? Is there an accounting package to check how you spend your seconds, minutes, hours? We all start out every morning with the same...

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Leadership and Collective Intelligence: How Idea Sex Causes Prosperity

25 May, 2010Character, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Leadership, Reflections, Relationships

Want to keep reading? I certainly want to continue to write. An article by Matt Ridley in the Wall Street Journal weekend addition, May 22-23 was fascinating and provocative. The essential concept is exactly what I have been teaching, without the juicy language. What determines the inventiveness and rate of...

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3 Ways to Make Good Change

18 May, 2010Business, Collaboration, Communication, Community Relationships, Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Executive Teams, Family Conflict, Fear, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Patterns, Transformation, Workplace Relationships

When I ask participants in my seminars how many of them are comfortable with conflict my hand is usually the only one in the air. When I ask how many are comfortable with change about 25 per cent of the hands go up in the room. So, therefore, from this...

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