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How Real Leaders Apologize and Mean It

…ly. Their heart softens in return. This is the physics of caring, of being compassionate. One softened heart, softens another. The opposite is also true. When you are simply uttering words, without heart, people also know it – immediately. Your non-apology is delivered with a hard heart and is received with a hard heart, in return. Hard hearted-ness does not beget forgiveness. What you are more likely to receive is cynicism. Which is what you dese…

October 13, 2016 No Comments

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6 Steps to Creating a Vision

…ect search engine. Dana-Farber Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s ultimate goal is the eradication of cancer, AIDS, and related diseases and the fear that they engender. Our mission is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. …

February 4, 2015 No Comments

Finding the Upside in the Downturn

…(Twitter) Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin are some of the insightful, kind, and compassionate corporate executives that I have ever had the privileged of working under. I was a mere rank-in-file employee. I am sure, without a doubt, when Tony says this was an extremely difficult decision, he means it. I think Tony was being as transparent and honest as he could be about why these events transpired. When he says it was emotional, he means it. Tony Hsieh…

February 21, 2009 2 Comments

Emotional Intelligence

How Mindfulness Meditation Builds Emotional Intelligence

…to react when I get spun up. I’m much more effective when I’m patient and compassionate. Curious? Let’s talk. I teach mindfulness in corporate settings and am amazed at what participants say about how helpful it is. “I work with someone who’s often very angry. I realized she feels vulnerable and frightened. Recently, before meeting with her, I paused and made a decision to be kind, no matter what. She softened. I saw her tough exterior melt away….

February 22, 2018 1 Comment

Celebrating Mothers Day – Leadership Lessons from Mothers of Presidents

…his book on leadership Pulitzer Prize winning presidential biographer and leadership scholar James McGregor Burns wrote, “As leadership becomes more properly to be seen as a process of leaders engaging and mobilizing the human needs and aspirations of followers, women will be more readily recognized as leaders and men will change their own leadership styles.” Lincoln and Obama learned to be such leaders from their mothers and trusted guides who t…

April 14, 2009 No Comments

Leadership Leap Frog

…ning to work. Click here to read more about Collaborative Transformational Leadership also known as Leadership Leap Frog. To return to the first chapter in this Corporate Soul series, click here. The final chapter – What Not to Learn from Zappos. One reader said it may be the most important one in the series. I usually post only one picture but I really liked both of these and couldn’t decide, so I used my rule of shopping. When you can’t decide,…

June 3, 2010 7 Comments

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Why You’re Wrong about Leadership: A dialogue between MiniMe and MySelf

…wrong about leadership and the way you think about it? You’re wrong about leadership and the way you define it? You’re wrong about leadership because you focus on identifying attributes, behaviors, ad nauseum? MiniMe: Huh? MySelf: You spout all this stuff about emotional intelligence, business acumen, blah, blah, blah… Well, maybe those things matter to some degree, but let’s take a peek at one of your most revered leaders of this era, Steve Jobs…

December 27, 2012 No Comments

Your Leadership Megaphone Instruction Manual

…Along with your title and responsibilities you also received your very own leadership megaphone. You may choose not to use it, but others will. For this reason your leadership megaphone comes with a warning label that reads, “Caution. You’re not in charge of how others use this instrument to broadcast their understanding of your message.” Leadership megaphone How the Leader’s Megaphone Works Your statements will be broadcast far and wide. At times…

November 17, 2016 2 Comments

Most Important Leadership Film Goes To…

…for Hidden Figures scholarship, worth $200,000. Both companies Hope to inspire as many young women as possible to strive for greatness through the scholarship. Women who receive the scholarship will inspire others. Leadership inspires. The best leadership movie award goes to Hidden Figures for leading with an inspirational beat that goes on beating. Read more about the film and the real women whose story it tells. …

January 18, 2017 No Comments

Leadership Cave – Why You Need One

…fferent light, because you can actually see the light, and it’s different. Leadership cave Leadership Cave – why you need one? If I had a nickel for every time a client said, “I just need to step back”… We all need to step back, on occasion. Most of us need to step back on frequent occasions. Stepping back requires time, distance and a change of setting to establish a different head space. Why do we need a different head space? At work we’re incli…

October 13, 2017 No Comments