Archives for Leadership
No More Straight Lines for Company Careerists
This is an unpredictable world. Duh – no kidding – you say. I begin this blog with a statement of the painfully obvious. We all know and experience the unpredictability of these times everyday single day in the news and as change manifests in our own lives. I have a friend who has worked for a […]
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 […]
Wanna Be Better? Choose Simon.
We all have an oh-I-am-so-above-that side. So many of you will be appalled at this confession: I watch American Idol. Faithfully. My husband just poked his head in my office, looked at me then at the TV. (It’s Wednesday, folks, America has voted. Someone is going to get ELIMINATED.) He pathetically shrugs his shoulders. Potentially […]