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Find Your Leadership Brand Tattoo

…icture is worth a 1000 words. So let’s consider how you might picture your leadership brand. Your leadership brand needs to be true. It’s not your hope, your wish, or your leadership wanna be. It’s who you truly are as a human being and as a leader. The idea that those two things are separate is absolute nonsense. Your Leadership Brand Exercise Imagine choosing a tattoo that represents who you are as a leader. You’re not only choosing the image, y…

August 6, 2015 No Comments

Women in Leadership

More Women in Senior Leadership: New Research Report Details What Women and Corporate Leaders Must Do

…nce, they must position it alongside the top business imperatives. Re-make Leadership: Despite decades of efforts to increase the number of women in senior leadership roles, the needle on this corporate metric has barely moved. Gender bias is prevalent in the very way leadership is defined – a take charge, have all the answers, aggressive style. Corporate leaders must change both the definitions and practices of leadership. Women will help them do…

December 31, 2011 12 Comments

Your Hidden Leadership Authority – Wise Use Guide

…for good or the not-so-good. Use it wisely and intentionally. Your hidden leadership authority Your Hidden Leadership Authority – The Source Let’s begin by defining and identifying the sources of your formal and informal/hidden authority. Your formal leadership title establishes your power and authority to issue orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience. Your hidden leadership authority, on the other hand, is tied to who you are as a role mod…

December 1, 2016 No Comments

My Four Leadership Lessons on Water Skis

…in, marveling that I was actually standing up and moving on water skis. When I felt ready to be done, I signaled the driver. I ended on my terms, when I was ready, not because I fell or gave up too soon. As I walked back, one of the sunbathers shouted, “You looked really good out there.” Four Leadership Lessons: #4 If you want to lead, you need to get out there! What’s your leadership learning story? Julia Daly Stefanini and Anne Perschel, Executi…

January 11, 2017 9 Comments

Transformational Leadership and Ego Development

…development. In recent years we have seen a variety of labels and models: Leadership Agility (Joiner and Joseph); Integral Leadership (Wilbur); Seven Transformations (Torbert). Some, including Daniel Goleman write about specific competencies such as emotional intelligence. All share the central idea that the era of the heroic leader acting on his own has long since gone. The world changes too fast; the issues are too complex and multi-faceted; th…

January 6, 2008 1 Comment

Leadership Mistakes: The Wrong Side of Being Right

…ped out, you might want to skip to section title To Be a Right Leader Make Leadership Mistakes. Leadership mistakes – make a few Many years ago, I consulted to a leadership team that was making a BIG shift in the company’s business strategy. At first blush it seems the team was in the throes of some BIG leadership mistakes. They were deciding to bring an end to the corporation’s role as market leader in a particular technology sector. Instead, t…

July 16, 2013 1 Comment

Leadership

3 Inspirational Leadership Types – Which are you?

…ey available through Germane Coaching & Consulting.) What is Inspirational Leadership? Inspirational leadership – Seeing the tree inside the acorn Imagine, for the next few paragraphs, that human beings are trees. The inspirational leader is a Pied Piper of all things acorn. She leads them, individually and collectively, along the path to becoming trees. While following her, each acorn meets and overcomes personal challenges.This is how they reali…

March 3, 2014 No Comments

Women’s Leadership Program Delivers $6.5 Million

…ower push from the very top ignites and fuels culture change. RK’s women’s leadership initiative, LIFE (Leadership, Inspiration, Family, and Empowerment) included a strong focus on business development. Why? The firm’s future rests on its ability to bring in new business, so proven abilities to develop business is a requirement for leading at the most senior level. Ingredient 2 Build Competence and Confidence in Skills that Contribute to Business…

July 11, 2014 No Comments

Be a Gracious Leader to Be a More Effective Leader

…ela – gracious leader I’m advocating for placing greater value on gracious leadership. Speaking of it more often. Identifying graciousness as a desirable leadership quality. It’s an issue that comes to mind even more so given the lack of grace demonstrated by both presidential candidates in the United States’ 2016 elections. Graciousness is Powerful G-dliness is an obsolete definition of graciousness. Grace is what we say before a meal. It’s is an…

September 1, 2016 1 Comment

Leadership

The Leadership Competence Confidence Factor

…e duet. I’ll start by declaring, we’ve got something right. Over confident leadership coupled with insufficient leadership competence brought us this. Lack of competence and over confident By way of contrast, I’d like to share snippets of conversations from highly accomplished women, executive leaders in public service, who participated on a panel at The Boston Club. These women are singing about the leadership competence confidence duet Question:…

June 10, 2014 No Comments