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Building a Self-Correcting Team℠
Means building beyond high performance to a team that functions well in your absence. What I’m seeing with clients is that with the very rapid…
Leadership Loyalty
Things like actively overseeing career advancement, fighting for appropriate and fair metrics, going to bat for higher salaries and bonuses, encouraging stretch opportunities, monitoring the…
Coaching and Mentoring Team Members
Is more essential than it has been. Because, in addition to wanting work that is meaningful, there is an increasing trend toward team members also…
The Value of Visual
It’s why your mission and vision is likely on the wall, why when clients are trying to change their thinking, I suggest putting it on…
Leaders Listen
For themes and patterns. For what might be coming. For information that is in contrast to what they think and believe. And to whomever they’re…
If You’re Going to Throw Someone
Into the deep end of the pool, try to warm up the water. In other words, ask team members to stretch – to greater responsibility,…
Just Start
As temperatures dip this week, arriving for a run presents many moments of reasonable and reasoned arguments for not getting out of the car. But…
Economic Outlook
At last night’s Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum, Dr. Eugene Flood joined us as a guest speaker, presenting his economic outlook for 2022. Gene talked global…
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…
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