Strategies for Business Leaders
Practical, actionable, with a hint of inspiration. Every week in your inbox.
All Posts
Do You Know Your Leadership Brand?
Is a doorway. For others to seek you out. Good idea to know what it is, then. If you haven’t had a series of 360…
If You are Delivering a Talk: 9 Tips
I was talking with a client today to help them prepare for an upcoming talk at a conference and thought I’d share some of the…
To Our Veterans
Thank you.
The Coach’s Coach
More than ten years ago, Pamela Nauda Clark (PNC to me these days) and I were in coach training and paired up as practice buddies.…
Momentum
Is a description, really, of energy that breeds more energy. And with it, speed. And power. An avalanche has momentum. As does a winning sports…
CEO Focus
Three times in one week, CEOs reached out to discuss getting help with one of two issues: succession and/or team performance to prepare for 2023…
NY State of Mind
Walking into my favorite NY hotel on a recent weekend was so joyful. They’d re-opened after a pandemic-driven closure of two years, and entering the…
How to Be a Strategic Asset
As delivered this morning at the NC Bar Association. First, know what it means to be a strategic asset: You are a business partner oriented…
Template: Your 2023 Personalized Strategic Leadership Plan
From this month’s Magnificent Leadership® Live event: What’s the One Thing that Will Make the Greatest Difference for You in 2023/Where Can You Add the…
New Offerings and Ways of Working Together in 2023
To help you plan for 2023, below you’ll find some of the most common avenues for working together. If you don’t see what you’re looking…
Pipeline Nutrition
Is steady, I was telling a client today. Every week, taking action to stay in front of your clients/customers or their influencers. (Which means…
Leadership Gold, 2
Despite insisting that he didn’t have a crystal ball, Nick Schacht, Chief Strategy Officer at SHRM, gave us quite a bit to think about at…
Leadership Gold
From yesterday’s conversation with Janet Bridges, VP of Corporate Accounting and Finance at Chick-fil-A, during the Magnificent Leadership® Executive Forum Annual Event: Leaders have to…
Courage + Humility
I was debriefing an engagement with a client that has gone exceptionally well and attributed it to two things: their courage and their humility. Courage…
Looking to Leapfrog?
One idea, applied, can change your whole year. As can one conversation, one interaction, one insight, one illumination. The leaders that I work with understand…
French Bread
Like strategic leadership, is made of only a few ingredients. Which makes their identification and execution critical. Strategic Leadership, as I describe it to clients…
If You are Not Managing Your Bench
You are subject to being held hostage by it. That’s one of the things I’ll be talking about at next week’s Fusion Forum for the…
Vegas Rules
Apply. That’s the foundational credo of the Executive Forum. What’s said here, stays here. And at tonight’s meeting, members brought challenges for input from the…
How to Determine Your Next Move
From this morning’s webinar. When you’re assessing what you want to do and where you want to go, the typical model asks, what are you:…
Last Call
To register for tomorrow’s cost-free webinar on “3-Factor Authentication: How to Decide What You Want, Pursue the Right Opportunities, and Land Your Ideal Role or…
Starbucks
Is Rethinking Almost Everything. That’s the title of the article on the front page of today’s WSJ. Interim CEO Charles Schultz has been on the…
Q4: Leading Forward
I, too, am wondering how September is arriving this week with the last quarter of the year on its heels. I mean, whoa. If you…
Announcing a New Offering for Men
Shared experience is powerful. In the early days of the pandemic, clients were struggling under the weight of all that they were carrying. And their…
Registration is Open! October 5+6 LIVE in Raleigh
You will be hard-pressed to find a more open discussion about business challenges and creative solutions, a more welcoming group of peers, or a more…
Are you elevating your leadership as your business grows?