No matter how many times you’ve been there No matter how many times you have faced a similar issue No matter how simple it seems No matter how urgent No matter how much this is right up your alley Situations are fluid. As many similarities to the past you see, there are new variables. Don’t
Three years ago this week, I was hospitalized in Hong Kong for a virus I contracted. For 4 days, it was pretty rough going as they searched for an antibiotic that could fight the virus. I was away from my family, in Hong Kong. But, what I remember: My Hong Kong Agility team coming to
I was talking to my client, Tina Alencar. Tina is a University Student starting her own social enterprise, UnI Social Club. We were discussing how people (leaders too!) feel compelled to always take thoughts and act on them, build on them… to create opportunities or results. Tina, who has been meditating a lot longer than
Adventure and Fun “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” “Customers shouldn’t just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service — it should be a fun place to be.” “First and foremost, any business proposal
As leaders, we have to challenge ourselves and our teams. Living within our comfort zones, accepting the status quo, means we don’t grow. We won’t grow as individuals, as a team, and as a business. Our customers expect us to innovate, to build on our value propositions. Our employees expect the same from us. And
Do you get frustrated about not accomplishing all the things you want to achieve? Of course you do. Life has a way of throwing detours and roadblocks at us. Just when we get our head above water, another crisis appears. Just when we find we are making headway on that critical project, we have to
from The Artist’s Tao by Sean Starr: XXXI Diligence “There is no greater glory than to work hard for what you love most. Work hard at developing your artistic voice” Time is too short not to understand your true passions, the things that motivate you, excite you. Work hard at that. I read an
I had the pleasure of working with an executive, Andrew Jackson. Andrew gets it. Andrew held a management meeting with his management team. There were several objectives to the meeting: A 360 team review and leadership style assessment (that alone tells you what kind of manager he is!) as well as strategy and business
Meet some social entrepreneurs – heroes that inspire me every day: Vera Cordeiro, a social entrepreneur in Brazil, has built a holistic healthcare model based on improving the livelihood of single mothers and their sick children – leveraging an empathetic, self-empowering model that raises the mothers out of cycles of despair and poverty and which
One of the things I like to do with my clients is to give them a forum experience. I am a member of YPO, an organization of CEOs around the world. Within YPO , I am a member of a forum; forum is a group of 6-8 YPO CEOS that meet every month and share