Lead Change Group

Episode #3 of Meet LeadChange this Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 3 PM EDT will be an interview with Monica Diaz (@monedays, LinkedIn).  Monica is the author of Otheresteem: Regaining the Power to Value Others and CEO of Quidam Global and LifesWork International. A global speaker, coach and Organizational Consultant, her passion lies in helping [...]

Have you ever witnessed a miracle? It isn’t every day that a planet is formed or a spaceship lands in Mississippi or someone walks on water.  But I’ve started asking people that question. I don’t have a lot of results in yet, but there are only about 4 different answers you can give: never, once, [...]

Maybe it’s time we started a little global warming. Oh, I’m not talking about the planet’s surface temperature.  I’m talking about a different kind of warmth.  When people know one another and share a mutual appreciation, there is said to be a warmth between them.  When those people actually work together to make a positive [...]

Book Review: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel H. Pink Every now and then I read a book that stretches my mind.  I’m not such a free-thinker to do it often, but a friend offered me a copy of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future [...]

It seemed as I was graduating from college in the early 1980′s, prevailing business thought revolved around a passion for the customer. Business writing seemed to be dominated by the power of the customer at least from a marketing perspective. Customers selected the style of car and the flavor of food. Customers were front-and-center of [...]

In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, he asserted that employees wanted to know their work was meaningful. He called the sign Irrelevance. People want to know that their work is important. But, more than that, they also need to know how it’s important and to whom. How does their contribution [...]

Are you a producer or a consumer?  Do you evaluate your own output? You can read much today about your personal brand.  It’s no accident.  The Internet, rather than revolutionizing marketing, is institutionalizing it.  Not only must we market our companies and our products or services, we are each individually something that must be represented, [...]

Do you want to make a splash on the bottom line of your company?  Would you like to implement a change to improve productivity or reduce expenses?  Take a look at your inter-departmental interactions.  Maybe you can produce some leverage just by collaborating with a peer in another department.