Elegance – The Essential Leadership Quality
We spend a lot of our time learning, and adding what we learn to what we do. We think of this as “growing”. But if you observe someone who is brilliant at what they do – say, an athlete, or an actor or a dancer (and often a great leader) – one...
The Fallacy and Danger of Competition
The prevailing paradigm for running modern organizations is competition. Competition, as defined by many leadership teachers, writers and consultants, draws its analogies from war and sports. But modern organizations are not at war (or at least, shouldn’t be)...
Google’s 8 Good Behaviors (for leaders)
In most organizations – corporations, governments, not-for-profits, families, schools – setting high standards is the result of a small number of things done extremely well. Choosing those few practices that are the necessary conditions for high...
Updated Surveys Available – for Stress and the Soul
Over the years we have developed a number of surveys which are used by our clients for: 1. Strengthening coaching relationships, 2. Assessing employee engagement, 3. Measuring corporate climate, 4. Surveying leadership strengths, 5. Measuring on-the-job stress...
Leadership: The Morning After
So now comes the real test of leadership. We have had months of nasty, bitter, mudslinging, character-bashing campaigning between the Hatfields and McCoy’s. And now it is the morning after. It is time for healing, reconciliation, innovation and hope. More than...
Announcing Our New iPhone App
Dear Friends, When I was working in the Czech Republic last year, I met a young team of application developers who loved our Spirit@Work® Cards so much they offered to develop an app for the iPhone and the iPad. It has just been released and is available in the iTunes...
Fixing Healthcare
This week I was a surgeon’s patient in the hospital (great job, mending well, nothing serious). Usually, I am advising hospital CEOs and leaders how to transform their cultures, create inspiring systems, identify and realize strategies and build efficient...
The Growing Challenge in Corporate America
During a conversation today with senior leaders of one of America’s once great companies, I learned of their plans to cut costs during the next fiscal year. After several years of budget cuts, sales declines, sinking employee morale, stress and burnout, and the...
Inspire Someone Today
Here is a simple idea: If each of us commits to being more inspiring, and we invite all our friends to do the same, and millions do it, we will change the world. Simple, right? Will you make a commitment today to be more inspiring in your meetings, your e-mails and...
The New Year 2012
“Let us enter the New Year cheerfully. Let us resolve to look on the bright side, to make the best of whatever may befall, to maintain faith that doing the right thing will ultimately bring victory. Let us cultivate sunniness, resist sourness. We can...