Leadership Development Tip: Take Control with a Smile
Clients often ask me how to establish control of a client meeting…
04.05.12 Tip of the Week
Leadership Development Starts with Determining What You Care…
03.29.12 Leadership Development…on Safari?
I am currently on safari in East Africa in the Serengeti Game…
03/12/12 Are You Making Lemonade?
In this Harvard Business Review blog, the authors make great…
02.29.11 What Can We Learn from iPad 3
It's really fascinating to observe Apple's consistency in innovation,…
02.17.12 Tip of the Week: Dealing without a Deck
A client recently shared a difficult situation with me. She was…
02.09.11 Fast Company’s newest blogger…me!
I am very excited to let you know that today, my first "expert…
01.26.12 Tip of the Week: To Coach is to Teach
Often in my executive development programs, a client will…
12.08.12 Tip of the Week: Keep Your Agenda…then Drop It!
I can’t think of a time when forging sincere relationships…
Contribution Is King
An essential responsibility of leadership is seeing potential in others that they may not yet see in themselves—and then helping bring it forward. That’s the difference between observation and contribution. It’s one thing to recognize talent. It’s another to activate it. Recently, I was coaching a high-potential Vice President and posed a simple question: “What’s […]