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The Corporate Soul Series

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.

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Women in Leadership: At the Cross-Roads (written by a man)

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.

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Good Leaders SEE INTO the FUTURE

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.

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Fixing the Hole in the Corporate Soul

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.

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Recipe for Gratitude Cake

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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