Archives for Leadership
Five Easy Steps to Wreck Your Life
Wrecking one’s life isn’t all that difficult. Coaching sessions with top-notch executives – talented, smart and good at what they do - reveal an extraordinary gift for giving momentum to the wrecking ball of life. But once in a while, a leader has a come-to-Jesus meeting … with himself or herself (and perhaps a coach) to […]
New Study Shows Over-the-Top Benefits and ROI for Career Sabbaticals
Let’s confirm what we already know. Most people, at some point, would like to take time out from work. Of course, there are real and serious questions to consider: Is a sabbatical a smart career move? Can a sabbatical make me more committed to my career? To my company? Will I be transformed by the […]
What You Learned Today is Your Future
With the Allegheny Mountains in summer glory, the Tau Kappa Epsilon class of ’58 gathered at Penn State University last week. I attended with my husband with expectations of a bad chicken dinner in the company of people called TKE’s with whom I don’t have much in common. I was, after all, tuning in to […]
Find Your Inner Follower
If you want to improve as a leader, make sure you do some following. I learn more about excellent leadership - what it looks like, how it feels and pays off - as a board member of a non-profit, volunteer at beach clean-up and in a wetsuit. Books about leadership, content loaded and inspiring, pale […]
Golden Giving: Volunteer Overseas With a Paycheck
While some of us are content to pick up a hammer to help Habitat in our communities, others have wanderlust wrapped around their desire to help others. During the last week, likely your heart has broken or at least felt a wee bit blubbery with news of the human suffering from tragedies in Myanmar and […]