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The Pursuit of Excellence—Not Perfection
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.” ~Confucius, Analects Stina Persson, Perfectly Flawed Perfection is an illusion. The notion that we can attain something or achieve some task or...
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Quiet Desperation
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”—Henry David Thoreau Upon graduating from college—more than a short time ago now—my roommate and I set out on an adventure across the United States. We...
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Why Lead Now?
THE QUESTION When I first entered the workforce, I craved the idea of becoming a leader. I didn’t care what it was. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to figure it out. I wanted to lead people to...
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The Definition of Greatness
The following excerpts are from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “The Drum Major Instinct” speech delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 4, 1968. “And there is deep down...
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The Work-School Balance
Today’s posting goes out to all those working professionals who may have underestimated their boundaries to the point of no return – and who may be questioning their sanity on a regular basis. I am...
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Personal engagement: it’s a relationship thing!
As so many of us focus on the newness of setting goals and resolutions, I find myself looking back over various relationships with friends, coworkers, and others that were once new and have now matured...
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Lead Your Team To Effectively Use Technology To Learn
Ensuring employees have ample opportunity to learn and develop is crucial to organizational success. Yet, leaders can be bombarded with messages to increase the use of technology if they want the most...
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Leadership as an Experience in Humanness
At the beginning of my career, desperate for experience, I took whatever job I could in my field. Fortunately, my first manager treated employees and customers like gold. Luck struck twice when I was...
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Tips to Contain the Crazy: Increasing Productivity While Reducing Stress
I love to learn new ways to increase my own productivity while also reducing stress. I call it containing the crazy. Like many of you, I cling to my calendar, my to-do list…I shudder to think of the...
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The Look of Ethical Leadership
Call me idealistic, but I want more from Gen X and Gen Y when it comes to leadership. I want to see us go beyond the standard leadership stereotypes to something more global, accepting, and inclusive....
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Leadership: How to Adapt and Survive
Remember the T-1000 in Terminator 2? The bad guy who was made of liquid metal and could take on the appearance of any other person he met? What made him such a formidable enemy was that he could adapt...
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5 Things People Do To Look Really, Really Busy
Filed under: Accountability, Behavior, Business, Challenges, Coaching, Communication, Direction, Expectations, Feedback, Focus, Goals, Growing, Growth, Innovation, Inspirational, Leadership, Learning,...
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Are MBA’s worth it?
I have spent the last two years of my life completing my Masters in Business with an Emphasis in Strategic Human Resource Management. I spent on average around 15 hours a week studying, writing essays...
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British vs. American Culture!
Filed under: Accountability, Behavior, Business, Challenges, Coaching, Communication, Customer Service, Differences, Diversity, Expectations, Feedback, Growing, Growth, Inspirational, Leadership,...
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Top 3 Reasons Why Being a Great Leader Isn’t Easy
A few months back, I asked a group of leaders for a show of hands on who had experienced either oversupervision or undersupervision. Almost every hand went up. But then I asked how many had themselves...
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