by Lance | Jun 29, 2007 | Authenticity, Effectiveness, Leadership, Truthfulness
How do you measure the cultural health of your organization? Do you really know how your colleagues feel? There are many instruments in the marketplace that attempt to measure cultural climate. But, at the Secretan Center, we have long felt that there is an unresolved...
by Lance | Mar 25, 2007 | Authenticity, Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership
I have argued extensively in my book ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership that multitasking is inefficient, and sends a signal of disrespect to others when we multitask in their presence. Multitasking squeezes the “slow time” out of our lives...
by Lance | Feb 20, 2007 | Authenticity, Effectiveness, Leadership
I have been using psychometric tools for 35 years. But I have found that 1) They are often flawed, 2) They focus on the ego or the personality, and completely miss the soul, and 3) They lead to the demeaning practice of labeling and pigeon-holing people. So I have...
by Lance | Dec 9, 2006 | Authenticity
My friend Shonnie Lavender came to ski with me recently at my home in Colorado. (Read her blog). As she is also a business associate, we talked business. And we also talked skiing. We had a marvellous day and we discussed our shared business issues, and I also taught...
by The Secretan Center | Nov 5, 2006 | Authenticity
My dear friend Debbie Ford is courageous, vulnerable and brilliant. I want to share a remarkable speech that she gave to the Masters Circle Superconference in Orlando last week in which she demonstratred the power that being vulnerable has to inspire others. Just as...
