I’ve been speaking more and more about leading through sustained change – recently speaking to Cisco managers and the Mich Society of Association Executives. Leading through sustained crisis is different than “normal” leadership. Sometimes, all your assumptions fall apart. Think about newspapers, who thought nobody could compete with their long-developed skills at gathering news, formatting, editing, printing, distributing. Look: you can do it all online. Let me know if I can help your leaders learn to lead in times of incessant change!
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Cultivate The Leader Mindset
08 September 2019 11:55 PM | 1 CommentLast week I wrote about Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal. Gawande deals with what patients and doctors DON’T want to deal with . . . the inevitability of death. The denial of death often results in brutalizing treatments that make life more painful (and sometimes even shorter) […]
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Leading and Aging and Meaning
03 September 2019 12:49 AM | 2 Comments791 words, approximately 3 minutes… I was with about a dozen college classmates (’80) on Sunday, and there was much talk about our parents in their 80s and 90s. Today’s blog is for the aging. That is, of course, all of us :-). But I […]
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Be a Leader – Be an Ally
26 August 2019 12:51 AM | 7 CommentsI had the wonderful opportunity to present to a cohort of leaders at a major corporation last week. The group of 75 came from around the country. They had been selected based on their upwards trajectory at the firm and their promise as leaders. Can […]
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Making Meetings Mindful instead of Miserable
04 August 2019 8:13 PM | No Comments“I am a really good teacher, and as so, I hold people’s attention.” That’s what I tend to think. But when I watch others teach, I realize, “OMG, it’s so easy in the audience – even without technology – to drift off!” And when I […]
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A Strategy to Grow as a Leader
29 July 2019 10:22 AM | 2 CommentsIf you’ve been reading Read2Lead over the past few years you’ve tracked my decided shift into two territories you might call micro-leadership: leading yourself and leading in dyads. They are profoundly connected. And here are the two primary reasons why they are, and how they form […]
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