Stop the multi-tasking advice! Ain’t no such thing!

Uninformed corporate mandates drive me crazy.  For example, a comment was made in an online chat group that a boss had instituted “working lean” Continue reading

Christmas Wrapped With The Greatest Generation

The need for an exchange planted me at the gift-wrapping counter at the local mall.  I dreaded the holiday shopping crowd.  When I arrived, Continue reading

LEADERSHIP CONNECTIONS TO SUSTAINABILITY

To stay alive as an organization depends more on relationship than revenue.

Leadership in these times must inspire enduring engagement while balancing both results and people. The question is: what do you as a leader personally and professionally want to inspire? Continue reading

What does your leadership, personal or professional, inspire?

So much talk about leadership that one can become mesmerized simply by the flow of repeated tenets and startling efforts to proclaim some “new” magic bullet to success. Let’s simplify.  Anyone’s leadership can be judged by Continue reading

“Truth, Justice And The American Way” From A Chicken Super Leader

Leadership tenets are extolled in great abundance; a plethora of google links lead to workshops, seminar sales brochures, consultants’ blogs, and water cooler discussions that now go viral at the click of a tweet.  Yet the cry for meaningful leadership Continue reading

Management Temptations For The Developing Leader With Character

There is a part of every human soul that wants to control someone else rather than collaborate.  That temptation being known has spawned management comments we have all heard such as Continue reading

A 5 Question Work Relationships Quiz & Answers From Live Session

Question #1:  Individuals are the key to improving relationships.

Answer #1:  False Continue reading

Great Article On The Multitasking Myth

So You Think You

Can Multitask

Making the Most of Your Time and

Your Talent in the Internet Age

The New Year 2012 gift you might miss….

Life comes in fragments that can bring wonderful memories and launching pads for the next fragment to be lived.  On this year’s To Stop List Continue reading

Taking a leadership hint from the fir trees…

364 days a year a twinkle is:

•  sparkle in the eye.
•  a gleam that varies continually between bright and faint.
•  a glimpse of light amongst the branches of the fir tree.

Then comes Christmas Day when a  twinkle becomes a Santa expression or ornament sparkle that brings only delight, merriment, and shear joy! Continue reading