by Lance | May 16, 2012 | Calling, Courage, Destiny, Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership, Love, ONE Dream®, Oneness, Service, Truthfulness, Values
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...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2012 | Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership, Love, ONE Dream®, Service, Values
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...
by Lance | Mar 14, 2012 | Authenticity, Courage, Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership, Service, Values
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...
by Lance | Jan 10, 2012 | Authenticity, Character, Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership, Service, Values
“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...
by Lance | Jul 26, 2011 | Authenticity, Character, Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership, Values
Let’s assume that Bloomberg (the publishers of Businessweek) understand their target audience. Let’s also assume that their target audience are the executives and leaders of our corporations, academia, healthcare and political institutions. In other words,...
by Lance | Jun 30, 2011 | Authenticity, Effectiveness, Inspiration, Leadership, Service, Values
I’ve often wondered why my wireless provider needs to put handcuffs on me in order to provide the services I need. It’s taken me a while, and a lot of insufferable service and interactions, but I’ve finally figured out the reason. If you...