3 Ways Powerful Leaders Can Practice the Art of Saying No
Make your YES mean more by saying NO more often. Saying “No” is hard because we don’t just say the word, we burden it with other – unsaid - baggage on both the sayer’s and receiver’s part. But it...
View ArticleForget The Gender Debate – Let’s Transform The System
Corporate America is rife with women’s leadership development programs and excellent ideas about how to help women advance, but it’s not happening. The System – by which I mean our prevailing corporate...
View ArticleHow To Maintain And Use Group Power – Book Review of The PRIMES by Chris McGoff
A PRIME is a pattern or principle that reliably comes into play when people gather in a group. This observable pattern - once named and shared with the group - goes from being an unconscious pattern to...
View Article6 Dynamics of Transformation – for Your Business and Your Life
Good leaders need to be reasonable managers, able to make sure the important stuff gets done from day to day, but a true leader's potential is discovered and exercised during times of business...
View ArticleHow to Encourage Folks to Stay in Corporate America… 3 Lessons from...
Even when I left Corporate America, I didn’t leave. For at least a few years I think I was still caught in the corporate culture trance as I contracted in semi-permanent positions. It was lucrative and...
View ArticleSolopreneurship – 3 Oxymoronic Ways to Climb The Corporate Ladder
What does it mean to be IN power when you’re working for yourself? The answer to that question, I believe, is meaningful for all of us – even those with bosses who live in cubes or on airplanes,...
View ArticleSuccess is Messy
Buddhists and psychologists alike tell us that non-attachment to outcomes is the key to success. There is tremendous value in thinking this way – and it’s a key component of my executive coaching work...
View ArticleLeadership Test: Integrity During The Holidays
The holidays are a stressful time for all of us, when we struggle with work-life balance (or not) and work to serve our business and our families with equal gusto, too often at the expense of...
View ArticleThe Perils of “Easy” Consensus: Leaders, Do Your Job
Throughout my career I’ve had experiences with government, nonprofit and corporate cultures, and I’ve noticed a leadership pattern in all three that any leader can learn from. Consensus means different...
View ArticleThe Antidote for Toxic Corporate Culture
In a recent leadership development workshop I ran, one woman bravely spoke her truth about the reality of the toxic corporate culture they all worked in. It was dysfunctional. Managers were petty and...
View ArticleCo-opting the Power of the Toxic Boss
I just read a great article by Richard Boyatzis detailing the brain science behind "emotional contagion." I find this particularly interesting in the context of corporate culture, having observed some...
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