Welcome to the Corporate Soul series featuring people and companies who bring soul to work. It is also a forum for sharing ideas that advance this practice.
Welcome to the Corporate Soul series featuring people and companies who bring soul to work. It is also a forum for sharing ideas that advance this practice.
When I asked Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO “What is your essence?” he replied,” I build things creatively.” I learned that for Tony “building things creatively” means playfully defying conventional wisdom while building something of value.
Andrés Tapia, Hewett’s Chief Diversity Officer and Emerging Workforce Solutions Leader says more women in leadership roles should be “hard-wired” into the overall company strategy. Tapia, a former journalist, makes a compelling case for increasing the number of women leaders as a strategic advantage and offers recommendations for doing so. He extends “best practices” to “next practices” so we can reach beyond where we are today.
Forbes is wrong. “Good Leaders Recognize When Patterns Change” is the first item listed in What Wall Street Needs from Leaders. That’s not good enough for me and it shouldn’t be good enough for you. Once the pattern changes everyone can see it, and a good leader should not be in the crowd. She should be in ahead of it.
Harvard Business Review asked why so few women CEOs made it to their Best Performing CEO list. My reply appeared in the March 2010 print edition of HBR.
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With one ounce of boldness and two of anxiety I submitted a requested article to the editor of a business journal this past week. Why the anxiety? I used the word “soul” – not just once but twice.
You would be amazed at how much it means to an employee, peer, customer or vendor when a busy executive takes the time to write and send a note via snail mail in this day of instant messages, voice mail, texting, twitter, email etc.
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Watch and listen as some of the world’s top business leaders talk about the need for more women in leadership roles.
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