Your Job is a Temporary Consulting Contract – Invest in a Bigger Payoff
One of the saddest facts we face today is that so many people have quit looking for work. These are people who would like to work but can’t find a decent job. In many cases they can’t find any job. Although the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts our unemployment rate of about 6.3% that number […]
How to Avoid the One Thing You’ll Most Regret
You better have an agenda for your life or someone might steal it from you. I am getting very busy lately coaching women leaders. What I’m finding is a new level of restlessness. A kind of “I’m not to take this anymore” energy that used to be invisible. I think that now that the economy […]
Are You too Busy to Love? 4 Proven Investments to Keep the Flames Alive.
Let’s face it our world is going crazy. Over the past two years with almost every Executive I coach and every audience I speak to I hear that the aspiration for work-life balance is dead. It was killed by technology. What’s weird is that this fact is often presented with some chest beating… as if […]
Why Smart People Fail – 4 Steps for Convincing Leaders to Change
I’ve been working with Molly, a smart, young, frustrated leader in a big complex organization. I was asked to work with her because her department was continuously failing to deliver results on time or on budget. Senior management decided there was a morale problem, and that if people just worked harder results would improve. So […]
The Only Reason to Work
Lately I’ve been helping several companies reinvent themselves for growth. The challenge is always the same… how do you create a new unique value proposition… one that really creates value? One that is so potent and preferred that customers can’t live without it. And importantly, one that’s worth talking about in our social media saturated […]
The Advantage of Courage
I’ll begin with something very positive. There are leaders today of very large enterprises who are motivated by moral ambition. There are. Just last week at the conclusion of the meeting I was having at Gap’s headquarters in San Francisco, CEO Glenn Murphy showed up. Remember, he’s the CEO who boldly decided to increase the […]
How To Increase Your Leadership Power
Wow, I am just coming up for air. My last two blog posts about The Only Way for Women to Win (Part 1, Part 2) has provoked a lot of hot conversations, both on and offline. I think I need a short cooling off period. I was recently asked for advice about how to get […]
The Answer for Women in Leadership
In part 1 of The Only Way for Women to Win, I made a case that if women try to advance in leadership by acting more like men, then it’s a sure path to failure. I’m quite sure of this. I am because whenever I have seen women fire themselves up to compete for power in […]
The Only Way for Women to Win
Something terrible is happening to women who work. I deal with it constantly because I coach men and women executives who work in large corporations. It gives me a front row seat that allows me to closely look at what really works for women to rise in leadership and influence and still like their lives. […]
Should Leaders Eat Last?
I’m so frustrated. I recently watched a video of a new Simon Sinek speech based on his book Why Leaders Eat Last. I like both Sinek’s speaking and writing. It’s both muscular and gentle. He is a new voice for a timeless message. I think we all know the message. Greek philosophers were talking about the […]
