A Primer on Loss and Grief for Leaders
If you are running a company of any size, you hear about some relative or friend of your workforce dying almost every day. In even the smallest company, there is loss all around your employees. Loss you don’t see, and I am about to make you aware of. [...]

  This morning at our weekly MAC Toastmasters Meeting I was asked to give a short recap of my Saturday breakout session “Pumping Mental Iron”. One of the things I didn’t get to do on Saturday, since my time was shortened (read my last blog post) from 50 minutes to about 35-40 minutes, was to do [...]

I just arrived back home after delivering a breakout session on brainpower for Communicatiion ‘10, The District 7 Toastmasters Spring Conference at eh Oregon Convention Center. Because the introductory keynote ran a bit over, I had to cut our session short, so thought it would be helpful to post an outline for you, since we did rather race to [...]

It was a cold, crisp, clear December day when I pulled into the parking lot of Barnes Elementary School to meet my “little” for the first time.  I was nervous.  Woudl she like me?  Would I be able to be everything she needed/expected?  Would I embarrass her in front of her peers?  The questions were [...]

Every day another business management or leadership book comes out and every day you are wondering how to best leverage your existing workforce.  We read about the top ten CEOs, what we “should” be doing to best manage our people, and we are overwhelmed with quotes and advice from all the top leadership ”gurus”. Just for a moment, let’s STOP.  Take [...]

All of us need to improve our decision making abilities in this business environment. 
IQ (Intelligence Quotient) measures your overall general intelligence. EQ (Emotional Quotient) measures your emotional intelligence: your ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.  This is how effective leaders [...]

You’ve heard it a zillion times: “Leaders are Readers.”  My friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones said “5 years from today you’ll be the same person you are today except for two things: the people meet and the books you read”. One of my favorite quotes. He passed on a few months ago, and my job is [...]

Yes, I know you already belong to at least one mastermind group.  (If you don’t, join one today)
Just because you already belong to a Mastermind Group or two doesn’t mean you aren’t always on the lookout elsewhere for great ideas and thoughts, right??
You have a perfect opportunity starting right now to leverage your time spent [...]

We have serious global environmental challenges to face,  an estimated 100 million homeless people worldwide, drugs devastating our communities everywhere, the US Financial Crisis weighing heavily on the global economy, countries at war, including our own, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
You have a company to run, a board of directors meeting to [...]

Yesterday I received an family email from my sister, who is Chief Risk Officer at a very large international bank.  Apparently, family members have been contacting her, asking about economic survival strategies.  They are concerned about their 401K’s, investments, retirement security, etc.
The world is in a panic, and I’m stating the obvious unless you’ve been [...]