November 26th will be upon us in a few days. If you’re like my family, you are busy getting ready to enjoy the traditions like the aroma of turkey and pumpkin pie filling the house, visiting with family and friends and feasting on wonderful foods. Year after year, I’ve watched my family sit down to [...]
Archive for the ‘leadership’ Category
What Are You Really Hungry for This Thanksgiving?
November 23, 2009
Surrender to Summer
August 24, 2009
Summertime…and the living is easy! This year my beach vacation was utterly relaxing. Having just returned home, I sit here lingering in the serenity of this wondrous feeling of chilling so completely. I found rest and relaxation by looking at leadership goals in a new way. I made it a point to include big goals [...]
Ride Your Own Tour de Leadership
July 28, 2009
Leadership isn’t always about winning … or even making everyone happy. Sometimes it’s about furthering your own personal values and purpose. When you choose that kind of leadership, you’re simply not going to listen to your critics. In fact, the people who aim to taunt and challenge, might even inspire you to achieve more. You [...]
Cheering for Underdog Leadership
July 17, 2009
Leadership rarely starts easy. Yet something in all of us wants to believe in the magic of overnight success without all of the hard work and often failure that’s part of the process. That’s probably why I am so drawn to Lloyd, a character on the HBO series, Entourage. When the season premier opened this [...]
Power Up Your Vision
March 3, 2009
Vision has always been a subtle but critical element for effective leadership. In these tough times, I firmly believe that it’s even more essential. My thinking on vision was reinforced last week while speaking at the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Annual Alumni meeting in Washington, DC. All presentations I attended, including my own, emphasized the [...]
Here and There
October 16, 2008
What is there for you, as a leader? You know what I mean? Like when I get there – then everything will be all good. I keep trying to think about when there is here. As far as I can figure, we’re always here. Right here. Not there. Nowhere else to be. So isn’t right [...]
