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Understanding Psychology: Slogans – Risky Tools
Slogans mainly are bad. But like most things they can be used in ways that help or hurt. The main problem is when they substitute for a method to achieve the aim (most of the time). If the slogan serves like a mission statement to focus people...
Management Improvement Carnival #87
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provides links to recent articles to help managers improve the performance organization. Lean in Sweden: Tools < Thinking by Mark Graban – “Tools have some value, but only in context of lean thinking and the lean management philosophy. Tools aren’t value-less, but thinking is better.” Manufacturing...
The Trouble with Incentives: They Work
Gipsie B. Ranney has a great new article – The Trouble with Incentives: They Work I have wondered whether the escalation of pay, perks and parachutes for CEOs actually tends to attract individuals who are primarily extrinsically motivated, rather than individuals who are seriously interested in creating value. Several recent examples...
Toyota Stops Lines – Lots of Lines
The practice of stopping (either the machine automatically detecting a problem and stopping or a person stopping) the line when a problem is detected is part of Jidoka. Jidoka is also highlighting and making problems visible. Jidoka and Just in Time are the two pillars of the Toyota Production System....
Prophet Unheard: Dr. W. Edwards Deming – 1992
This is an interesting video on Deming and American management (by the BBC in 1992): Prophet Unheard. It includes some nice old footage of Deming in Japan. The importance of respect for people is clear and the video also touches on the idea the danger of relying on...
Management Improvement Carnival #86
The collection of posts from 10 blogs that made up the 2009 annual management blog are counted as Management Improvement Carnival #85, making this post #86. Are Slogans Always Bad or Can They Inspire? by Mark Graban – “Why are slogans bad? Dr. Deming writes, in part, ‘They are directed...
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Employers saw a lot of differences and challenges when hiring the most recent workforce group, the gen y-ers.But they haven't seen anything, yet. Next up is generation z. You might not have heard of them yet, as they were only born as early as 1995, but they'll be entering the...
In sort of a sequel to Michela's last blog, I was thinking about the generation discussion and I believe that having multiple generations in the workplace is very beneficial. It also can be catastrophic if everyone is too stubborn in their own ways but that comes with anything you do....
Expectations v. Reality : Which Side are You On
It is no surprise that the way an office is run is changing due to the increasing presence of us "Gen Y"-ers. We've been labeled everything from the 'MyPods' to 'the Baby Boomlets' to 'the Boomerang Generation" (and that's just to name a few). We've had negative connotations associated with...
As a child, when adults would be talking about business, I misheard a well-known quote. I thought people were saying, "It is a doggy-dog world." I would envision all kinds of nice business people walking down Wall Street, tipping their hats and saying hello. They would be holding their cute...
I love the Think Different Apple ads. Particularly the uproar the grammar geeks sent up when they misunderstood the headline and thought it should have been Think Differently.One of my gifts is breaking challenges into component parts and rearranging/reassembling those parts to achieve a goal. I think both different and...
With every new year, comes new promises to ourselves: lose weight, spend more time with our families, quit smoking, etc. etc. etc. However, according to an article by Keith Hartung, only "52% of all of the participants in a resolution study believed they would accomplish their goals, and...
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How should legal professionals and organizations confronted with e-discovery interpret e-discovery within the context of actual expected processes, inherent risks, and the available technical solution read more...
NASA Must Outsource to Take America Back to the Moon
Just like most everyone else, budget cuts are forcing the federal government to outsource projects currently hand read more...
The State of Security: An Interview
The Information Security landscape is changing. In the face of dealing with more sophisticated threats, these recessionary times are driving innovation like never before. read more...
Infosec Island Membership Drive - Over $10k in Prizes
Infosec Island, the new online community designed especially for IT and network professionals who manage information security, risk and compliance issues, today announced its new Q1 membership drive p read more...
The State of Security: An Interview
The Information Security landscape is changing. In the face of dealing with more sophisticated threats, these recessionary times are driving innovation like never before. read more...
Web Services are a great advance in our quest for the Service Oriented Enterprise, but most enterprises overlook the importance of a Service Registry (UDDI). read more...
Sanders Says
Your friends may not be able to hire you or buy your products ... but their friends can likely give you all the business you'll ever need. I shared this point of view with a small business owner recently. He......
If you want to succeed in business or life, grow everything in your path. If you are a manager, grow the people that report to you. Make them smarter, more confident, healthier and happier. (In that order) If you are......
Last week, I gained a great insight from my tennis instructor, Nick Mathews. After an invigorating but challenging hour with him, he talked to me about his client approach. He explained that he customizes his approach to ensure that the......
Here's a revenue forecasting tip for small business owners, freelancers or sales managers at any company: Never take points off the board. This is a sports phrase used to describe points that are errantly posted on the score board, only......
(Photo by Lesley Bohm) I believe that book readers are better leaders. A few years ago, in a trade magazine, I read the result of a poll of a few thousand business folk from small biz to corporate enterprise. The......
A ripple is a phrase used in the Timberland culture to describe how a single act of compassion can inspire others and lead to a chain reaction of good. (watch The Timberland Story) We all want to be part of......
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The Chief Happiness Officer
I’m currently writing an op-ed piece for a Danish newspaper about how to treat new hires. A lot of companies get this wrong and more or less toss in new recruits at the deep end to let them sink or swim for themselves. Others, like for instance Disneyworld or Zappos.com spend...
Denmark is having the coldest winter in many years and the whole country has been covered in snow for the last several weeks. This, predictably, annoys the Danes. The roads are icy, the trains are late, your feet get wet, etc… So last night I went on Danish TV to explain...
I got an email from Red in the Philippines, who took a major step towards happiness at work last week: Red writes: I have been your follower and i really admire your writing style. In fact, I have adapted your style in my report writing. I just talked with my boss this...
Here’s some major happiness at work at the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. What you see is their staff doing a Pink Glove Dance for breast cancer awareness. Thanks, Elaine....
Srikumar S. Rao at our 2009 conference
One of the highlights of our 2009 conference on happiness at work in Copenhagen was Dr. Srikumar S. Rao’s wonderfully inspiring and funny presentation. His presentation focused specifically on two traps you must avoid, that keep us from becoming happy. You can watch the entire speech here (18 minutes): Dr. Rao is...
Work as play – the great Alan Watts
The inimitable Alan Watts tells us why we should not approach work as work – but as play. Take 20 minutes out of your day, get comfortable and watch this. Part 1: Part 2:...
N2Growth Blog
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While success is normally considered to be a good thing, unless you’re prepared to handle it, success can quickly complicate your life. Even worse, without the proper perspective, success can actually contribute to the beginning of your downfall. So my question is this: Is your success serving as...
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Finding The Zone” is a concept that most athletes are familiar with, but what about CEOs? We’ve all heard the sportscaster refer to an athlete as being in “the zone,” and so my question is this: “How do you find your performance zone as a CEO?” or...
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Whether you want to admit it or not, competition is part of your world, and likely a bigger part than you’d care to admit. Granted, exploiting the competition is not a novel concept. Even so, it is still very common to hear many executives adopt a competition...
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered” by having an equal voice. I can...
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth There has been an interesting amount of chatter of late around the concept of “when to lead.” What puzzles me is this statement’s inference that there must be a good time to not lead. I couldn’t disagree more – Leadership is an always on, full-time...
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth In thinking about the comments I’ve received from readers on the topic of leadership I noticed an interesting paradox…while many of you vehemently disagree on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of different leadership styles, most of you are in total agreement on the qualities and attributes possessed by great leaders...
Three Star Leadership Blog
Putting Drive to Work: Getting less of what you don't want
Reprimand is a powerful tool for getting less of behavior you don't want. But you have to use it correctly and you should never use it for performance....
2/3/10: Midweek Look at the Independent Business Blogs
Every week I select five excellent posts from this week's independent business blogs. This week, I'm pointing you to posts on giving air cover to your team, work you love, learning from your younger workers, starting over (in your mind), and successful CEOs....
Putting Drive to Work: Getting more of what you want
There are lots of positive extrinsic motivators. But the one most available to most bosses is also the most powerful....
1/31/10: Leadership Reading to Start Your Week
Here are some choice articles from the business schools and the business press to start off your work week. I'm pointing you to articles about Toyota, workplace diversity, leadership lessons from a pizza maker, management involvement in process improvement, and engaging with customers....
Leadership Reading: Special Toyota Edition
Toyota has been a successful company for almost a century. Now they're facing their biggest crisis since the end of World War II. Here are four select articles to help you get your head around the Toyota crisis....
Book Review: The AMA Handbook of Leadership
Your handbook for leadership in the 21st Century. If handbooks are your thing, this is as good as it gets....
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I Got Off My Ass . . . My First Podcast.
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Every so often, a person comes along, writes a book, and changes the way people act....
How To Be Successful Every Day.
It's Monday! Time to hit work after a wonderful weekend . . . check your email . . . get ready for all those wonderful meetings . . . and make sure you schedule for all the work coming down the pike this week. Whoops! Forgot to tell you something...
I love this skit. It's one of my favorites. Business-wise, watch it and pay attention to Woody's timing. His rhythm and cadence is so spot on - the story is funny - but his delivery makes the skit....
Okay — the title might be a little misleading. If you just robbed a bank and are evading the authorities, this post will probably not work for you (Sorry). But for most business and career problems — this will do just fine....
The Enlightened Manager
Watch that Trust Come Tumbling Down: Reflections on Obama
Previously on this blog, and also in my team development classes on Accountability at Work, I've talked about the factors that build trust and those that break it down. To recap, here is the basic four part formula to being......
Friday Five: Do These Things Consistently
You've heard these before, but are you doing them consistently? Check yourself against them today. 1. Offer Specific, Positive Reinforcement. - Point out what people are doing right. Help them recognize what they should be repeating. 2. Kill Long Boring......
Enough Joy to Overcome the Pain: Lessons from the Track
Today I wanted to write about something that I've learned from roller derby that has got me thinking about organizations. On Sunday, I had a fantastic time at roller derby practice. We practiced trying to knock each other out of......
A Classy Recognition Strategy from Microsoft
Hello Enlightened Managers! Something interesting happened yesterday. When my husband came home from work he handed me an envelope and said "this is for you." The card wasn't from him, it was from Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft. It......
Staying Focused When You're Overwhelmed - 5 Tips
Do you ever have that feeling that your brain is too full? When you look at the long list of deliverables and projects and to-do items and activities you have in front of you, and your poor little synapses simply......
Friday Freebie: Become a Better Boss
Most of you know that I offer an email coaching program called the Leadership Workout. Subscribers enjoy it because it gives you simple activities to do each week that build your leadership skills while improving your team at the same......
Talking Story with Rosa Say
Unconditional Acceptance, Nature and Nurture
In yesterday’s posting, You’ll Be the Company you Keep, I wrote, Aloha accepts all people unconditionally as our fellow human beings, worthy of the Aloha we then give, within the values-held belief that all people are good, and thus worthy of our love. And remember: If you are to receive that...
You’ll Be the Company you Keep
And “keep them” or not, you’ll be the company you love with Aloha. We have all heard the sentiment of my post title in some form. Perhaps our parents said it to us first, as they protectively watched us choose our earliest budding friendships, fully knowing how little they could truly...
February’s Strengthening. We know it as Love.
Oh February, you are so predictable! As a song goes… you are my funny Valentine… As so many of us do, when February arrives I immediately think of LOVE, and of what the word currently means to me. Not in its usual, universal definitions, for we keep those with us all year...
The alternative, is to stop learning. And that, is INCONCEIVABLE. Today we bid a fond Aloha to Joyful Jubilant Learning: Learning Healthy and Joyful Endings I never imagined this would be one of the changes on our horizon as 2010 began. Yet as I sit here writing to you, I am sure this...
They like you. But do they perform for you?
I asked the young man taking me on a workplace tour about his company’s management team, admitting that I had not met all of them yet; “What are they like?” We’d been walking and talking for a good amount of time, and so my question was not entirely out of context...
Values are the Bedrock of Hard Reality
“Soft and fuzzy” has taken a severe hit with our recent economic tumbles. You know what I mean; those workplace humanity concepts which fall beyond the bottom line. We were doing fairly well working on them for a while, and our very rational, genuine selves will speak up and say,...
Lindsey Pollak Career Blog
On MyPath.com: An Interview with Two College Career Services Professionals
What are the major hiring trends on campus this year? What are the best strategies for finding an entry-level job? What are the biggest mistakes students make in the job search process? To answer these questions and more, I spoke with with Trudy Steinfeld, Executive Director of the Wasserman Center for Career Development...
On MyPath.com: Job Opportunities with Women-Owned Businesses
I recently came across a study by the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute predicting that about one-third of new jobs created over the next eight years will be at small businesses owned by women. As a woman small business owner myself, I was really intrigued by this news. It also reminded...
On MyPath.com: 5 High-Impact Career Habits
Exercise for 30 minutes a day. Sleep eight hours a night. Floss. Good habits are the building blocks of a healthy life. The same goes for your career: small daily habits add up to big success. The earlier in your working life you develop smart daily practices, the easier they will...
Next 30/20 Vision Podcast: Wednesday, January 20th at 5:00pm EST
Join me and my fabulous co-hosts, Christine Hassler (author of The 20-Something Manifesto) and Alexandra Levit (author of New Year, New You), for our next 30/20 Vision podcast on Wednesday, January 20, at 5:00pm EST. Our topic this month is The Future of Work: what it will look like and what...
On MyPath.com: An Interview with Financial Literacy Expert Manisha Thakor
Are you making smart money decisions in your 20s? In my podcast this week for MyPath.com, I’m thrilled to present an interview with Manisha Thakor, financial literacy expert and co-author of two great books on personal finance, On My Own Two Feet and Get Financially Naked. In this 15-minute segment, Manisha answers...
New Year, New Guest Post: New Job, New You
Happy New Year, everyone! I love the freshness of the new year and look forward to sharing lots of great dialogue with you in 2010. To start the year, I’m excited to share a guest post from my friend and 30/20 Vision podcast co-host, Alexandra Levit. She has just released a...
Management-Issues : News
Ten lessons to learn from the crisis
As the the financial crisis recedes, it is clear that the structure of big bank boards and the behaviour of their directors must change if we are going to prevent similar disasters unfolding in the future. In particular, there are ten key governance lessons that need to be absorbed....
Why was the wisdom of Peter Drucker ignored?
The late Peter Drucker was the greatest management thinker of our times. Yet as the recent and current chaos shows, his wisdom went either unheeded as the wrong goals were attacked by the wrong managers. And what a tragedy that has proved to be....
How new ideas can challenge complacency
If you want to challenge complacency in an organisation, you need to make a strong case with strong ideas. Simply claiming that 'things could be better' is too vague....
Some US employers don't just want to dictate what their employees can or cannot do in their own time, they want to dictate what family members of those employees do, too....
A vast segment of our population spends their lives doing things that they hate to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress folks they don't like. All in the vain attempt to experience happiness. Is that you?...
Management creates finance, not the other way around
Pretending that the most important aspect of a merger is the sale price is like assuming that the most important point of a football transfer is the agent's fee. Yet that's exactly how the business press sees it....
Center For Leader Development
Leading Effectively e-Newsletter
The Center for Creative Leadership puts together a nice e-Newsletter each months that you can find here. More interesting perhaps is that they have a Google gadget so you can place it on your iGoogle homepage. Pretty cool! – Scott J. Allen...
Leadership development at NSULA seems to take on a different flavor (literally). I would love to know how this activity is debriefed! – Scott J. Allen...
Barbara Kellerman, author of Bad Leadership needs to add a new category. Cheaters. This is an interesting (and unfortunate) compilation of leaders who have cheated and in the process lost the trust of constituents, and undermined their ability to effectively lead. - Scott J. Allen “I don’t want to blow up my time in...
A note from John Ogle at National Association for Campus Activities: We want to remind you to register for the 2009 NCLP/NACA National Leadership Symposium by the early registration deadline of June 4. For details, please read the attached brochure or go to http://www.naca.org/Events/Pages/nls.aspx. Space is limited. We look forward to...
Journal of Leadership Education
We are excited to announce the publication of the special issue of the Journal of Leadership Education (JOLE) highlighting current issues and challenges in the field of leadership education. You can access the full issue from the link in the middle of the editor’s introduction: http://www.fhsu.edu/jole/issues/current.html or the full PDF at the...
I stumbled upon businessballs.com the other night and was really impressed with the amount of information they have provided (free of charge). It is pretty incredible. There are a number of links that relate nicely to the study and practice of leadership development. Check them out when you have the...
The Merrill Dubrow Blog
Quick Friday Humor: The Economy Is So Bad That . . .
If the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them. Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM and Chrysler. Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting. The Mafia is laying off judges. Exxon-Mobil laid off 25...
What Is Your Favorite Building You Have Ever Been In?
Last month the Burj Dubai opened its doors for the first time as the tallest building in the world. This structure stands at 2,684 feet – yes you heard that number correctly. I was totally amazed at how big it is certainly, but was really amazed and...
What Is Your Prediction For The Super Bowl?
Ok the final stage is set. We now know that the Indianapolis Colts will be playing the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl. The question is what will happen? Will it be an offensive show? Will Peyton Manning and Drew Brees each throw for over 300 yards? Does...
Would Love To Get To Know You A Little Bit Better – Take A 30 Second Fun Quiz
This blog was started August 2006. During the last 3 1/2 years there have been over 7500 comments from 1100 different people. I am still amazed at how much I have learned over that period of time and how much I have enjoyed sharing information, thought...
I Have Over 800 Connections In LinkedIn – I Must Admit I Am Excited About That
Like most of you I am on the social networking bandwagon. Yes I post on a blog, tweet, use Facebook and LinkedIn. Last week I noticed I got my 800th connection. First of all I am really excited about that! Here are a few reasons that...
Attention Research Community: Would You Go Or Send Someone To This Conference?
A few years ago when I was on the MRA National Board, we were discussing conferences and I tossed out an idea that I thought had some legs. The idea was a niche conference that focused on developing talent with people who have worked in the...
Mission Minded Management
One of the greatest life lessons anyone can learn is that WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME. When we treat others as we would like to be treated, it may or may not be well received. If it is not well received, we consider the others to be ingrates, and...
Add Time Spans to Your Resume to Reflect Your Requisite Level of Capability
I answered a question on a LinkedIn Management Consulting group from a person inquiring about how to ensure you are being considered for roles at the right level. Assuming you have been employed at full capacity in your previous work, adding a time element to your resume’s bullet points is one of the best...
If You Design It, They Will Engage. Executive Leadership and Requisite Organization Design
Trees and flowers don’t strive to grow. It’s built right into their DNA to grow and to bountifully produce. Executives Should Take a Page from Farmers Executive leadership should be concerned about creating the conditions necessary for employees to flourish. People are wired to work. They want to produce and produce bountifully. Farmers don’t spend...
Merry Christmas - True Leaders Serve
Regardless of your religious persuasion, one lesson we can all take from Jesus was an understanding that true leaders serve. This coming year I encourage you to work toward creating a workplace system that does not drive bad power but rather unleashes good power which is used in service to others....
Engaging Employees Through Operationalizing Good Power, Starving Bad Power, and Disallowing No Power
I was struck by a message on Good Power Versus Bad Power at my house of worship last week. It occurred to me that this is what PeopleFit endeavors to do within Managerial Hierarchies. Throwing The Baby Out with the Bathwater - Egalitarianism We are kidding ourselves to believe managerial hierarchies can be egalitarian. Power...
Even Leaders Have Leaders - How Do We Sort Out Who Leads Whom?
Employees Crave True Leadership Employees don’t begrudge being led. They resent being asked to submit to the leadership of someone who doesn’t add value to their thinking. Management Myth Busted Simply having more experience does not automatically qualify someone to be a thought leader for anyone with less experience. Danger, Danger - Promotions by Tenure Many a...
Coaching Tip: The Leadership Blog
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible...a leadership primer of eighteen lessons from General Colin Powell, Chairman (Ret), Joint Chiefs of Staff and former U.S. Secretary of State. Lesson 1: "Being responsible......
Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times by Donald T. Phillips People, Character, Endeavor and Communication Part 1: People Chapter 1: Get Out of the office and Circulate Among the Troops "His cardinal mistake is that he isolates himself,......
Relationships between people or institutions are based on exchange in which all parties have a mutual understanding of their rights and obligations. Relations between members of an immediate family or between spouses are based on obligations such as obedience or......
Are You Practicing the Law of Love?
Divine Law can neither be ignored nor put aside. Perhaps, the most important of these laws is the 'law of love.' Put simply, "Love is Law, Law is Love." This amounts to the same thing as "the gift of giving"......
Why is courageous followership needed today? We need to look no further than recent headlines, where we have been witness to some of the more horrendous examples of failed leadership in decades. These devastating events and many smaller ones could......
Where have all the smart and courageous American leaders gone?
Did you believe Dick Cheney when he said deficits didn't matter? Looking back, most people did while the Bush/Cheney administration passed tax cuts totaling nearly $2 trillion over the last 10 years. America is now in hot water due to......
Maximize Possibility Blog
The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week
I like to start every week off by pointing you to my choices for the top five talent management, leadership development, and human resource management blog posts from the past week. Below are my top five picks for the week of January 25th - 31st, 2010 . Enjoy! Chris Ferdinandi,...
Possibility Maximizer: SHRM on Facebook
Every week I like to highlight a resource that I feel will add value to your life at work and improve your professional effectiveness. This week I'd like to shine the spotlight on a great networking and social media resource. The Resource: The Society For Human Resources' Facebook Page What...
The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week
Happy Monday! Here are five choice blog posts to get your week off to a great start: Eva Rykr, HRM Today: 10 Reasons for Executive Failure David Zinger Employee Engagement: Advice For Managers: Free E-Book Tom Foster, Management Skills Blog: First Part of Accountability Drea Knufken, Business Pundit: The 10...
Possibility Maximizer: HR Daily Advisor
Every Friday I like to share with you a resource that I feel will help you to Maximize Possibility in your professional life and improve your performance at work. This week I've got a great daily newsletter that will keep you on top your human resources and talent management game....
The Rainmaker 'Fab Five' Blog Picks of the Week
I like to start every week by pointing you to my choices for the top five talent management, leadership development, and human resource management blog posts from the past week. Below are my top five picks for the week of January 11th - 17th, 2010. Vincent Ferrari, Know HR: Time...
Possibility Maximizer: Haiti Earthquake Disaster Relief Funds
I'm going to take a break from the usual format for my weekly Possibility Maximizer and focus on something much more important and pressing at the moment: helping Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake it suffered this past week. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and has...
Weekly Leader
Twitter #Leadership #FollowFriday Project (@OpenJonathan @LeadershipNow @MiaChambers)
Week 3 of our Twitter Leadership Follow Friday Project offers an XCEO, a great leadership resource and an engaging connector. Jonathan Schwartz had the Twittersphere buzzing this week with his resignation haiku. Ok, @OpenJonathan is the not the most prolific Twitterer out there having only updated his account 36 times since joining in...
Work Life Lead: The Experience of It
We live in a very compartmentalized social and mental world. The way we have structured our organizations and education systems has compartmentalized all facets of them. As a result, everything we do is done in little segmented boxes of interactions and activities. It is a hold over from the industrial...
Weekly Leader Podcast Episode 37 (Charlie Coiro, US Coast Guard Leadership Development Center)
This week Peter speaks with Charlie Coiro, Assistant Branch Chief, US coast Leadership Development Center, Leadership in the News, Social Media Minute/Website of the Week, Research Report of the Week and podsafe music. Leadership in the News President Obama’s State of the Union address World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland Military “don’t ask, don’t tell”...
Rosetta Thurman’s 28 Days of Black Nonprofit Leaders
Rosetta Thurman knows what she writes. While she has her own incredible story to tell, this month her blog will be featuring 28 Black Nonprofit Leaders. She writes: This month (inspired by Wayne Sutton), I’ll be highlighting 28 Black nonprofit leaders who have done or are doing their part to make our world...
Leadership via The Sunday New York Times (January 31, 2010)
Here are a few articles that we found interesting from a leadership perspective in the Sunday New York Times: G.O.P. Hits Its Stride, but Faces Rifts Over Ideology At a moment of what could be great opportunity, the Republican Party struggles with disputes over ideology, tactics and leadership. (Section 1 – Front...
Twitter Leadership Follow Friday Project (@CEO_INGDirect @JohnBRogers @Nilofer)
Last week we launched Weekly Leader’s Leadership Follow Friday Project with @WallyBock, @Tom_Peters and my podcasting partner @PamFR. To recap: We’re going to present our FollowFriday choices here on the website because it’ll offer a few more characters to help develop the “character” of the Twitterers we think you should follow...
The Best Horse Sense
Whispered By Horses with Penelope Trunk
http://WhisperedByHorses.com When planning for this week’s show with Penelope Trunk, my theme was about being vulnerable. As usual, I started the show with a horse story. This week’s story was about putting myself in a situation with a horse where I was the vulnerable partner. I chose this topic because Penelope is often brutally...
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Whispered By Horses with Stewart Raven
http://WhisperedByHorses.com If you have listened to one of my shows, you have heard that moving and haunting intro music. This week, I talk to Stewart Raven Smith who wrote and performed that little piece. I asked Stewart to be on the show because we connected music and horses in a couple of ways....
You can’t go back to square one.
I read a post on Seth Godin’s blog today that I wanted to reply to on his blog, but I couldn’t figure out how to reply. Maybe he doesn’t need to hear from us, but I wanted to reply. Here is a link to Seth’s blog post: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/square-one-is-underrated.html And here is Seth’s post in its...
About a month ago, I wrote a post about how we like to celebrate numbers with a pattern, like 12:34:56 7/8/9. Or it’s fun to watch an odometer change from 99,999 to 100,000. (See that post here) I implied that we are all a little silly for liking to see "interesting"...
When I interviewed Rabbi Shai Specht on my radio show a few weeks ago, he taught me about angels. Reb Shai said that in hebrew, the word for "angel" is often translated as "messenger." I learned that anyone or anything that brings you a message you need to hear is an...