Our guest for Meet LeadChange this week, September 9, 2010, at 3 PM Eastern is Jane Perdue (web, LinkedIn, @thehrgoddess). She’s the CEO and Chief Inspiration Instigator for The Braithewaite Group, a female-owned professional development and consulting firm. Jane delights in inspiring and challenging at the intersection of the art of leadership and the science [...]
We or Me – It’s Up to You
Social media, as with most things in life, can be exploited for personal gain or maximized as a tool for sharing, giving and inspiring others to live to their biggest and best potential. Are you in it to win it – for yourself, or for others? It’s that simple, and that complicated. At one end [...]
Leaders: Be Gr-r-reat!
As a lad, I lived for Saturday morning cartoons. Long before DVR, a boy needed an alarm clock catch the Super-Friends at 6 AM. And though a wide assortment of cartoons whizzed by until Noon, there was a consistent message throughout: “They’re GREAT!” See that was the catch-phrase of Tony the Tiger, the cartoon pitchman [...]
Leaders Serving Leaders
I was reminded this morning of the potential for good and bad through social media. I read these two posts (here, and one written to Christians here) about the narcissistic nature of involvement in social media and they made me think. With a bit of reflection, I am challenged to keep the focus of my [...]
Meet LeadChange Jen Kuhn
Our guest for Meet LeadChange on September 2, 2010 at 3 PM Eastern is Jen Kuhn (web, LinkedIn, @JenKunhPR), co-founder of The Experience Factor. Jen and her partner, Kelly Ketelboeter (@KetelboeterPR) make the invisible visible at The Experience Factor; helping businesses understand their mission IS their customer experience. They help businesses make sure their leaders [...]
Change Never Starts “Out There”
Craig Lambert in his book Mind Over Water talks about that frictionless state that rowers achieve when things become effortless. He calls it ‘swing’. He goes on to say ‘…our job is to simply work with the shell, to stop holding it back with our thrashing struggles to go faster. Trying too hard sabotages boat [...]
Wake Up and Shake It Up
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to contribute a post to a series conceived and published by Lead Change member Shawn Murphy called Wake Up and Shake It Up. The series was an eye-opener for several reasons. First, several Lead Change Group members contributed to the great series. In addition me and Shawn, [...]
Of Followers and Leaders
The definitions of words intrigue me. Words can have multiple meanings. Think of one quick (clean) example, the word coast. It can mean someplace we hope the oil doesn’t ruin or it can mean to neither accelerate or brake (as opposed to break). I’ve spoken before about character-based leadership as leading from who you are [...]
Focus and Excellence
“Other men will make other violins, but no man shall make a better one.” Antonius Stradivarius What type of work do you do? I’ve done a variety of things. In fact, sometimes I get caught up in what I’m doing so much that I stop doing what I do. I become someone else, or I [...]
Meet LeadChange Shawn Murphy
Shawn Murphy (member profile, blog, @shawmu, LinkedIn) is the Founder, CEO and President of Achieved Strategies. His passion is helping businesses change how they create value by bringing together people, strategy, operations, and leadership. For over 20 years, Shawn has worked with senior executives, middle managers and individual contributors to successfully transform businesses and individuals. [...]
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What Really Makes You a Leader?
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Biased Justification for Poor Leadership
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Three Promises of Character-Based Leadership
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Can You Base Your Career On A Little White Lie?
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Unique Difference
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Meet LeadChange Jane Perdue
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We or Me – It’s Up to You
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Leaders: Be Gr-r-reat!
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Leaders Serving Leaders
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Meet LeadChange Jen Kuhn
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Tara R. Alemany: So glad you wrote this response, Mark. As I'm read...
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Jane Perdue: Souzi - you're right that social media presents us...
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Thomas McDaniels: This is a great post. I think all of us need a re...
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Souzi: I think social media has taken us all by whirlwind...
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Jane Perdue: Erin - you are the strength and wisdom goddess! Th...
Contributing Authors
Don ShapiroDon's writing a book called Life Is A Fork In The Road about following your inner voice. He's also President of First Concepts Consultants.
Tristan BishopTristan Bishop drives teams toward efficient delivery of effective content. From early days defining the Knowledge Management vision for the first online bank (Wells Fargo) to his current role, unifying content strategy at the world’s leading security company (Symantec), Tristan has consistently increased customer access to key content.
Erin SchreyerErin Schreyer is President of Sagestone Partners, specializing in Leadership and Talent Management. Erin is a certified Coach, as well as a certified Strengths Trainer. Her focus is on helping leaders - even great ones! - maximize the impact they have on people as well s business results. For more information, visit Sagestone's website or reach out to her directly at eschreyer@sagestone-partners.com
Mike MyattMike Myatt, is a Top CEO Coach, author of “Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual” and is the Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer at N2growth.
Tara R. AlemanyTara is a leader in several roles: mother, speaker, entrepreneur, social marketer (using social media and appreciation marketing), mentor, corporate professional, martial artist, musician and missionary.
