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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts – Aristotle. What will make your life whole? What does this equation look like? The whole of your life done well makes for exponential happiness. Its greater than the sum of its parts! Take for example the great Steve Jobs. He achieved amazing success in […]
Melissa Greenwell, Author, Money On The Table During most of my nearly thirty years in corporate America, working with public and private companies of all sizes and industries, I’ve held a senior leadership role – had a “seat at the table,” surrounded almost exclusively by men. This is not surprising. Only twenty-three Fortune 500 companies are led by
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Judith E. Glaser, CEO, Benchmark Communications, Inc. Conversational Intelligence as a Vital Leadership Skill Organizations are changing at a dizzying and constant pace, creating the potential for volatility, distrust, and fear. These qualities both manifest and are fueled by conversations: conversations between leaders, between leaders and employees, and among employees themselves. Why should leaders care about
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Each year I aspire to teach my clients lessons that will help them improve their personal and professional lives and their businesses. But what many of them probably don’t realize is that I simultaneously learn as I teach. And even though I’ve been consulting for more than thirty-five years, each year and each client has
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Tracy Benson, CEO, On the Same Page Few quarterbacks enter their rookie season as the Dallas Cowboys’ Dak Prescott has this year – with the explicit support and mentoring from team’s reigning all-star Tony Romo, on the DL since the start of the season. Last week, the corporate world witnessed its very own parallel. Howard Schultz,
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Bob Kulhan, President, CEO & Founder, Business Improv At first glance, “improvisational leadership” might seem to be contradiction in terms. Leaders are thoughtful, strategic people; improvisation is a comedic art form and a team sport in which no one person is greater than the ensemble. However, when you redirect the tenets of improvisation away from comedy and toward
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Kay Kendall, CEO & Principal, BaldrigeCoach The Baldrige National Quality Award is the nation’s only Presidential award for performance excellence. It is given to organizations that demonstrate sustained excellence across a variety of measures. Having worked with 19 recipients as well as recipients of the top level awards from Baldrige-based state and regional programs, we have
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Vincent Spivey Every CEO dreams to be the leadership material that their employees would want to stick to for the rest of their careers. Great employees are great coworkers, and it is the goal of the CEO to keep them and maintain a healthy and growing relationship with them. Letting some good people go and
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The new CEO wanted to slug it out of the ballpark at his first all-hands meeting. Employees were watching the broadcast from around the globe. Obviously, engaging those assembled in the auditorium in front of him would be much easier. But he didn’t want to miss the first opportunity to gain their confidence that he
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Pilots use it; some doctors use it. The benefits of its use have been documented. What is it? A simple checklist. Are you taking advantage of it? My sister and her husband are pilots. Each time I fly with them they pull out their pre-flight checklist. Even with hours of experience, they use a checklist.
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