Even if you are not an independent consultant or run your own business, personal PR is still important to advance your career and stay in the minds of others to take on new initiatives. How do you go about staying top of mind in a positive light without bragging or brown nosing within the corporation? Read More
Month: June 2008
Pay It Forward
The banker reached into the folds of his gown, pulled out a single credit note. “But eat first — a full belly steadies the judgment. Do me the honor of accepting this as our welcome to the newcomer.” His pride said no; his stomach said YES! Don took it and said, “Uh, thanks! That’s awfully Read More
Disappointment
No matter how much a situation just ticked you off, don’t try to get revenge. No matter how upset you got over not being selected for something, shrug it off and find a bigger and better project to be involved in. If there is an issue that is frustrating you, but you know you can Read More
What Makes You Want to Take Charge?
Some who have a “desire to lead” have this desire due to having a greed of wanting more in life. If that is what you want, is “leading” the way to get you more? Others have a “desire to lead” to make change, solve a problem. So what causes you to get to a point Read More
The Bluebird
It’s Friday afternoon, 4:30 PM. Yup, you guessed it. A whole new file to process comes in and your boss tells you it is due before you leave today. You know processing will take over an hour and you are in a hurry to get to your son’s Friday Lights football game. What do you Read More
Gettin Physical
In preparing to deliver one of your most impactful speeches you need to remember not just what you are saying, but also, the physical parts to the speech. What do I mean by physical? Movement – hand gestures, walking around the stage, eye contact and anything else you do with your body. Sometimes you can Read More
Meetings That Matter
Do you often feel like you just lost an hour of your life when you enter a meeting that doesn’t serve a purpose, bring an item to closure or help make progress for you or your organization? What if you held a meeting like that, would people want to come to more of your meetings? Read More
Calm Leadership
What type of leader attracts you more to follow: The “in your face”, bold, brash, reactive, the “sky is always falling leader”, or The cool, calm and collected leader who takes everything in stride? A few of us reflected on this topic the other night as we replayed the “Clinton versus Obama” campaigns of weeks Read More
The Art, and Science, of the Jockey
As the democratic primaries come to a close, and a fun day of ensuring my team’s hard work and thought leadership doesn’t get stolen by others, I thought it was time to post on… The Art, and Science, of the Jockey No I’m not talking about becoming a sports athlete, but a business athlete. What Read More
Do You Nurture Or Throw Into the Fire – Or Do You Even Know?
After chatting with one of my managers from a long week of trying to determine how we are going to staff all the work we have to accomplish this summer (which is a wonderful problem to have!), we embarked on a great conversation about “nurturing” new hires versus the proverbial “throw ’em into the fire”. Read More