Tag Archives: leadership
To Get in the Flow, Reinvent Transparency
What are your strengths in practicing transparency across your organization? Knowing the answer is key to understanding who you are as a company and how sustainable performance can be achieved within the network of complex relationships that is redefining the nature of work. With an abundance of information at their fingertips, consumers have more choice [...]
Lift Up Your Leadership, Live Your Best Life
Feeling like your leadership potential is being held hostage? Maybe it is. How can you be sure? Ask yourself these three key questions: How am I able to consistently contribute really great work? How is my work life improving? Am I raising the quality of life for myself and others? If your leadership role feels [...]
Choose to Lead into the Future
There are few things in life better than seeing a workplace community come together to accomplish a huge goal and boost the quality of life for its people. Even more inspiring, perhaps, is the rare leader who at a high level lifts the entire organization by creating an environment that benefits everyone by committing to [...]
Finding Freedom In The Middle Of The Minefield
General Norman Schwarzkopf decorated military hero and strategist during the Gulf War has been reported by observers serving on the fields alongside Schwarzkopf as the epitome of leadership. One story reminds us of a such a time. While Schwarzkopf was visiting U.S. Troops in Saudi Arabia(1990) he received word that men under his command had encountered a [...]
Listening to the Future
In today’s changing environment, many leaders are questioning how they will steer their organizations, customers and teams into the future. Take a quick scan of any of the major business papers and you’ll find a dozen headlines that all spell uncertainty. Dodd-Frank, IFRS and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) are a [...]
Tackling Workplace Bullying With a Wealth of New Resources
Over the last several years a plethora of information, advice, and resources have become available on the national topic of workplace bullying. More recently career sites, hosted media spotlights, and columns have attempted to offer advice to targets of workplace bullying. Often well-intended to help targets, however, the dispersed advice is often given in a [...]
When Did IT Decide to Pay Them Selves Last?
Today’s IT leaders face a broader challenge in building and sustaining a high performance community in the midst of increasing customer demands and a global marketplace seeking premium IT skills. The rapid pace of business and economic transformation continues to challenge almost every organization. Achieving sustainable outcomes is dependent upon the impact of strategic agility, [...]
The Changing World of Work
The world of work is multi-faceted, with complexities not easily seen at first glance. As transformational leaders, consider your respective industry, markets now and those waiting for you to enter in the following scenario*: Arriving to work on Monday you join a company meeting of 200 colleagues. While many are physically present, many more are [...]
Freedom with Responsibility
Workplace brands tell powerful stories about workplace cultures. And the stories of forward- leading 21st Century organizations include highly effective senior management teams that push the envelope on accomplishing the unknown and take ownership for creating an environment in which skilled talent can flourish. Powerful brands reflect more than results; they reflect organizations where people live [...]
Answering the Call
Florence Nightingale was the daughter of a well connected British Family. Her parents William and Frances Edward Nightingale lived near the Porta Roman in Florence, Italy and named their beloved daughter after the city they called home. In February of 1837 Ms. Nightingale was inspired by a call from God to join the profession of [...]
