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Part 2: Welcome, 2022
What will you regret not doing/dedicating yourself to/experiencing this year?
Welcome, 2022
Where can you do less this year, rather than more?
The Last Sunday Sketch of 2021
Of all things not business and leadership related. Pulling: Off the shelf: Nick Malgieri’s Great Italian Desserts for its incomparable tiramisu recipe. Keep that whisk…
Off Over the Holidays?
If you spend time on work, spend it here. You’ll reap the dividends many times over in 2022.
A Reminder
If you’re thinking about working with me in 2022, I’m offering a 20% discount on all offerings through December 31st, 2021 in honor of the…
Team Resilience
Is one part collective experience to overcome the inevitable obstacles. And one part adaptability to recognize when it’s not sufficient. And what to do next.…
Disrupting Ourselves
What patterns of behavior do you want to disrupt in the new year? Patterns of thinking? Limits to your imagination?
The List You’ll Want to Check Twice, 2021
For the sixth year in a row, I’ve asked clients, colleagues, and leaders from The Making Magnificence Project® for their most-loved book of the year.…
How We Can Work Together: Upcoming Opportunities through February
As you make your plans for 2022 to grow your business, here are some ways we can partner. (Read to the very end for a…
When You Miss Your Own Meeting
It is the most professionally embarrassed that I’ve ever been. Mortified. Far worse than the side seam of my dress opening up before a speech…
Your New Competition
Is not the company that’s out to eat your lunch (although not a bad idea to take them into account). It’s the allure of autonomy…
Happy Thanksgiving
Wishing you and yours an abundance of health, connection, sustenance, gratitude, rejuvenation, and the time to pause and drink it all in. I will return…
Free Stuff
A member of the Executive Forum reached out to me yesterday to tell me that they’d listened to the interview that Doug Satzman and I…
Pivoting not Panicking
Rests on leadership to set the tone and the course. And talent to fulfill and improve upon it.
Implicit Leadership
Because of the seat in which you sit, there are eyes upon you. Lots of them. What’s being watched? What you say and how you…
Confident, Comfortable, Capable
And connected. That’s the meaning of executive presence. In practice. What gets in the way? Your head. The thoughts banging around in there. If you…
If You’ve Been Thinking About Working Together
2022 probably isn’t a bad time. In fact, it might be the best time. 2020 threw you into chaos. 2021 has you running a marathon…
Sunday Sketch
Of all things not business and leadership related. Stacked Higher: Anna Karenina. I might be throwing myself under a train at 800+ pages. Watched: Silver…
Caught off Guard?
Somehow, we’ve arrived in November. Perhaps it’s the pace of business coupled with yet-unknowns, but the end of 2021 is near and many of us…
Strategic Priorities, Part 2
Does your deputy know their strategic priorities? Have you helped to define them? One should include managing up — to you. And taking things off…
Executive Imposters
You might have a rather loud train running through your head that sounds like, “Do-I-have-what-it-takes-to-do-this-did-they-make-a-mistake-in-choosing-me-what-if-I’m-revealed-to-not-be-who-they-think-I-am?” Rest assured, you are not alone. Very seasoned leaders tell…
When Things Go Awry
That’s exactly what’s supposed to happen. This from Brad Wilson and Glen Tullman, said separately and in complete agreement, during our panel discussion at the…
Are You Asking Your Customers?
What they want and prefer? Giving them surveys? Polling them? Inquiring about what additional products/levels of service/offerings you can provide? I know you’re just trying…
Thank You
For opening, for hitting reply and saying that something resonated for you, for forwarding on to your teams and organizations, for shouting out and sharing…
Are you elevating your leadership as your business grows?