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ON LEADING AND BE-ING HUMAN

Category: Leading in Difficult Times

Leadership

Love Letter to Healthcare Workers

We may not have met, but I know you by heart.

You are the brave the courageous

Who are risking it all so others might live.

This is our love letter.

This is our gratitude.

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Golden Rules for Leading Transformation

As CEOs of Ford Motor Company, Nokia, and Microsoft changed their respective company’s core business and/or culture, they each established golden rules for leading transformation. Learn from them how to do the same for your company.

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Leadership

How Do We Lead Ourselves Through Dallas?

How do we make meaning of the 7 lives sacrificed leading up to, and in, Dallas? The only meaning is the one we lead ourselves to live. And that meaning, must result in a more evolved way of being. Otherwise these men’s lives are sacrificed are in vain.

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Emotional Intelligence

Speed & Beauty of Emotional Intelligence Examined

What do I mean by the speed and beauty of emotional intelligence? Emotions have energy. Energy travels quickly through time and space. Emotional intelligence, the ability to read and interpret emotions, allows us to respond quickly and beautifully to a vast array of human situations. Robert Kennedy’s response the night Martin Luther King was murdered is a stellar example of the speed and beauty of emotional intelligence.

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Leadership

How to Right Corporate Wrongs

The VW fuel emissions scandal raises the question about how to right corporate wrongs. I have an answer for VW’s CEO and CEOs of other companies in similar circumstances. Unfortunately there will be future cases, as we haven’t yet seen an end to such highly unethical, and illegal behaviors.

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Emotional Intelligence

A Personal Story about Touching Reality and Why it Matters

This is a personal story that sealed an important lesson into my being. When we refuse to touch the reality of a thing, it will express itself at another time and in another place. It will keep expressing itself until it finds a way to wake us.

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Leadership

Face the Ogre

You must jump through the hoop of Fire, and

Skate to the middle of the Pond

to face the Ogre

So Fear…

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