Jason Lauritsen of Transforming Business Through Talent website published an interesting post titled “When a Hired Gun is the Right Answer.“ Do you avoid outside experts to your disadvantage? Sometimes we try to do everything ourselves because we think of our inability as weakness. Jason talks about how many times, at least in HR recruiting, » Read More
Authentic Leadership leads to a sustainable workplace brand, the key to attracting talent ‘Authentic’ is a word rapidly falling out of vogue-especially with those of us engaging in social media. Yet none of us, if questioned, would deny we are authentic in our interactions with others. After all, we’re being ourselves all the time, right? » Read More
I wrote a post for this Lead Change Blog a few months ago entitled, “The Number One Thing CEOs Wish They’d Done Differently.” In that post I talked about how invariably when CEOs are asked, “What’s the one thing you wish you’d done differently when you took your role” they say, “I wish I’d moved » Read More
Leaders are known to inspire others to act and achieve goals that they otherwise would not be able to achieve themselves. They challenge the status quo and break down barriers to help their constituents achieve their vision. In many ways, leaders make things happen and affect change that moves the needle and transforms the company » Read More
Little League has finally come to an end for our family this season. Between watching my son’s regular-season games and my nephew’s all-star games, we’ve logged some significant bleacher time this spring and summer. It’s a great place to watch the interplay of talent and heart. Talent Talent—well, that’s all over the field, even in » Read More
A few weeks ago I was introduced to a man you should meet. He is a very creative, energetic leader in the field of web presentations: Roger Courville of 1080 Group. If you do anything with web presentations, you should meet him for at least 3 reasons:
I just disabled Windows Update for some of my “important” security updates. It’s a lengthy story; but the whole ordeal drove home some important leadership lessons. Let’s discuss the lesson first and provide details for the interested later. Can you recall ever feeling helpless? There’s nothing more frustrating than knowing that you can’t accomplish what » Read More
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been talking about strengths. This is the final post in a 5-part evaluation of Strengths. Strengths are the combination of Energy, Talents and Passions. But strengths without achievement are nothing. Achievement, significant, material, long lasting, world-changing achievements seem to always result from the application of strengths. Therefore I suggest the » Read More
Everyone is “a natural” at something. Think about it. I’m sure you know someone who is naturally gifted, endowed with more of a particular talent. If you’re like me, sometimes you get tempted to envy them. But you’re a natural at some things, too! In Strengths Finder 2.0 [1] Tom Rath used the 34 “themes” » Read More
Have you ever noticed that some people seem to get more done and have more life than everyone else? You seem to notice them everywhere doing everything. They seem to complete two lifetimes while you’re fighting just to get your kids to school. Why do they seem to have more energy or accomplish far more » Read More
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