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When We’re Knocked Off Center
Some people think that because I do what I do professionally, I’ve got it all together, all the time. But I get knocked off center…
- 360 ·
Across, Up, and Down
Many of you have been interested in hearing more on the topic of 360 conversations: I suggest up to 8 key stakeholders If you are…
Are You Telling Stories?
In your presentations at conferences? When you talk about your mission and vision as an organization? To lead your team? When marketing? To draw a…
3 More 360 Suggestions
Send out an email to each stakeholder selected for the 360 conversation, copy your coach Tell the stakeholder that you’re working with this coach and…
Confidence Forgives
Any number of minor faux pas. Fear enhances them. But confidence sometimes gets confused with arrogance or contemptuousness or grandiosity. It is none of those…
This Morning
I got up and headed straight for the woods. The outdoors was calling, and although there was much to be done, much that was pulling,…
Your Coach
If what I’m seeing in Q1 is any indication, there is a pent-up demand for executive coaching. If you’re looking, consider the following 9 criteria:…
Incorporating Intuition
I was talking with several clients recently about the topic of intuition in decision-making and possible opportunities to use it in conjunction with reason and…
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…
- Brand ·
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…
- book ·
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…
- Books ·
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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