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My Favorite Question for 360 Conversations?
The last: “Is there anything else you’d like to add?” The Magnificent Leadership® Ascension program is designed specifically for bold leaders who want to create a lasting imprint of meaningful…
What Happens When Buddhism Meets Romantic Love?
I don’t know, but we’re going to find out. Straight from my wish list, Polly Young-Eisendrath, author, TED-talker, and couple therapist, is joining me for…
Archimedes Takes a Tub
You know the story, yes? Mathematician and scientist Archimedes gets into the bathtub and comes out with the formula for volume. Earlier this month in…
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Repetition is Reputation
What are you repeating? Come in from the cold for a brief application conversation to join 2021 Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum. It’s cozy in this vibrant, trusted learning…
Raising the Barre — Again
The first time I wrote about barre class and my favorite teacher, Maureen, was pre-pandemic. Two months in, I’d begun to get the gist of…
Le Week-End
A bit fatigued? Frayed around the edges? Know that you’re in good company. Just about everyone I spoke with this week is talking about it. …
Rapt Attention
A few of the many nuggets from Glen Tullman’s chat at the Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum last night: There is more innovation in business model…
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Chapter 7
I once heard a presenter at a conference, a consultant, declare without reservation or hesitation, that they were smarter than their clients. My first thought…
Congruity
Congruity is alignment, authenticity its expression. Something that puts them both under a high beam, electron microscope? Leadership. A few things: Do I know and…
Wish List
Below is an initial interview wish list for On Love and Relationships℠, my new podcast. If you have suggestions for how to contact someone, please…
A Valentine
When this was posted in December of 2019, there would be one more visit. And then a year – and counting – without return. More…
Sex is Another Planet
That was one of the observations that Ian Kerner, renowned sex and relationship specialist, shared during this afternoon’s taping of the inaugural episode of my…
Spring is Coming
Even if you’re sitting in a place looking out the window to snow and icicles, like many of my clients. I saw robins – lots…
3 Questions When Delegating
What role/initiative/project would you like to take on? What do you see on my plate that you would like to be responsible for? What do…
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What Clients are Reading
Fiction and Non. History. Biography. Business books, not so much. The pages I’m turning these days, some still months later: A Promised Land by Barak…
2 Essentials for Managing Up
Be able to convey your value in the context and language of the organization’s strategy. How is what you do advancing those initiatives? Integral? Use…
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Connection During Disconnection
Many clients are telling me that despite the challenges of WFH, they’re feeling connected to their team in ways they hadn’t before. As we Zoom,…
Manolos for Meetings
Of the few newsletters that I subscribe to, two of them arrived this morning with similar messages about combating pandemic fatigue. Which was exactly what…
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What Comes Naturally
Is likely where you add the greatest value. (A truism from one of my first coaching mentors.) And not only can you not see it,…
Before I Reconsider
At last night’s Executive Forum, we discussed 2021 commitments, and I asked about a fulcrum, something that makes everything else better. 5 months ago, I…
Coming Out of the Gate
The beginning of the year is the dreamy part. It’s full of imagination and new beginnings and what could be. Essential to creating the future.…
Pandemic (Re)Prioritization
I receive Esther Perel’s newsletter and found this most recent issue full of poignant observations an insightful questions.
Break Down Isolation, Open Up Imagination
At the Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum, we’ve got top-tier guest speakers who join us for real conversations. Leaders like Brad Wilson, CEO Emeritus of BCBS…
The Results from My Client Road Trip Are In
And they’re not what I expected. Which is exactly the reason to do a client road trip. It turns out my best clients think I’m…
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