Jessica Soroky continues her series Leadership is a Choice. In most cases this blinking cursor is my friend – full of possibilities and wonder as it leads my thoughts from sentence to sentence, enticing me to go further. Today this little, blinking black line is (more…)
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I've been asked—and have agreed—to teach The Leadership Gift Program's 8 Core Modules live via webinar beginning March 4. I have not done this since 2014 and am not sure when I will do it again. If you are interested in (more…)
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Volkswagen Group IT leadership gathered at the stunning Axica Conference Center in Berlin. And when it was time for (more…)
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This week Mike Edwards joins us from his blog with a post about vulnerability. In my last post Being vulnerable about vulnerability, I shared a lot about how learning to be present with my vulnerability has impacted me. Since then I have been reflecting on what may have led me to struggling so much with being vulnerable, and more importantly what is possible when...
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In her last guest post, Taking Risks to Grow, Cathy Laffan wrote about the benefits of taking risks, this week she examines compassion and The Responsibility Process™. How do you practice compassion? Do you reserve your compassion for certain people or situations? (more…)
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I work with a lot of executive leadership and large organizations on culture change issues, and I often hear the question, "Should we go agile?" or "We're thinking about going agile. What do you think, is agile for us?" My usual response is that I don't think that's the right question -- because agile is not a noun, it's not...
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The final step to clean up a broken agreement after you have made amends is to recommit to the relationship. How do you do that? By telling the other party (who has received your acknowledgment, apology, and amends) exactly how you intend to treat the relationship in the future. What does this do? If you are sincere in making this recommitment,...
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Birth. Life. Death. These are linear events and yet together they make up cycles. Religion. Education. Careers. All cyclic, and within them they condition us to cyclic behavior. Some cycles, like the 24-hour cycles our days run on, are easy to see in their entirety and not difficult to get a complete understanding of the behaviors within that one cycle....
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A question came up in our community recently that gave me the realization that even when I feel “stuck,” I am free. Free to choose to continue to be stuck or free to choose not to. To give a little more context, I was on The Leadership Gift™ Application Mastery call with Bill when one of the accredited Practitioners brought up...
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Trust me, if you come together over commitment, skills will follow. But if you select team members for skills, then needed commitment might never appear. Conventional wisdom on teambuilding advises leaders to first attend to creating the "right" skill mix as they assemble teams. I disagree! I have observed time and time again that skills are much less critical to...
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