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Part 2: Welcome, 2022
What will you regret not doing/dedicating yourself to/experiencing this year?

- Sarah Levitt·
- January 5, 2022 1:25 pm·
Welcome, 2022
Where can you do less this year, rather than more?

- Sarah Levitt·
- January 4, 2022 1:30 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 18, 2021 8:17 pm·
Off Over the Holidays?
If you spend time on work, spend it here. You’ll reap the dividends many times over in 2022.

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 16, 2021 7:28 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 15, 2021 1:42 pm·
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.…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 14, 2021 4:16 pm·
Disrupting Ourselves
What patterns of behavior do you want to disrupt in the new year? Patterns of thinking? Limits to your imagination?

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 13, 2021 6:56 pm·
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.…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 8, 2021 2:23 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 7, 2021 1:16 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 2, 2021 12:05 am·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- December 1, 2021 11:15 am·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 20, 2021 10:46 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 16, 2021 9:05 pm·
Pivoting not Panicking
Rests on leadership to set the tone and the course. And talent to fulfill and improve upon it.

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 16, 2021 12:03 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 15, 2021 1:46 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 8, 2021 9:37 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 8, 2021 10:05 am·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 7, 2021 10:51 am·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 2, 2021 6:44 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- November 1, 2021 11:18 am·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- October 28, 2021 6:33 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- October 26, 2021 7:59 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- October 25, 2021 9:55 pm·
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…

- Sarah Levitt·
- October 25, 2021 8:10 pm·