Lead Change Group

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post referencing a recent family summer vacation to Hilton Head.  I experienced such joy watching my children during that week that I felt moved to write about it.  I found ways to relate my kids’ activities to “leadership lessons” that I thought were great reminders for us [...]

Part 1 of this post concluded with the question, “What would your ideal work culture look like?”  Here’s an expanded version of my response. Over and over the human beings in our workplaces are marginalized, as if the task to get done is more important than employees feeling as though their contributions make a difference.  [...]

Note: This post originally appeared on the N2Growth blog May 18 with the title The Leadership Vacuum, but we need to keep the dialogue going. The biggest problem with the leadership industry is found within the ranks of those who call themselves leadership advisors. There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being [...]

Our American work culture is evolving.  Many “people in charge” (I hesitate to call them leaders) have lost their way – they’ve have lost track of the very distinctive value that Human resources bring to making our businesses prosper.  If we are to capitalize on the unique value of Human beings at work, the fundamental [...]

The second installment in the Leadership Character webinar series will be delivered by Steve Keating (@LeadToday) on Tuesday August 17, 2010 at 3 PM Eastern. Steve will discuss the necessary role Vision plays in character-based leadership and how your values are essential to your vision. Steve is the Selling Skills Manager for Toro Corporation, a [...]

While sipping my morning coffee the other day, I stumbled upon an interesting Op-Ed piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks entitled The Summoned Self.  In it, he outlines two possible ways of thinking about one’s life:

We’ve been talking all month about self-leadership. We have stressed the importance of leading ourselves. But how does one go about becoming a powerful self-leader. How do you get trained in self-leadership? Traditional leadership training creates self-leaders only as a secondary result. Many times we train people to follow the steps to becoming a leader. [...]