3 Skills to Prevent Leadership Burnout

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Strategies to help you feel more empowered and confident through all of your company’s challenges.

How Happy Is Your Organization?

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Today, March 20, 2013, marks the first ever International Day of Happiness. This was decreed last year by the United Nations following a meeting on well-being attended by government officials, economists, scholars, and business and spiritual leaders

The Best Positivity/Negativity Ratio for Peak Performance

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Given the overwhelming research on the power of optimism can leaders and teams be too positive? Intuitively we know that’s true. An overly positive view often leads to whitewashing issues as if pretending they don’t exist will make them g

20 Signs of Leadership Indifference

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One of my consistent observation is: “Indifference is the enemy of great leadership.” Indifferent leaders make a statement, “I don’t care” through their thoughts, words and actions. Indifference in leadership can manifest itself in one (or

The Religion of Innovation

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Enough with innovation for innovation’s sake.BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins took a shot at Apple today, speaking to a reporter for The Australian Financial Review. While couching his statement in respectful terms–“Apple did a fantastic job in br

Branding the Pope

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I’m writing this just after the conclave of cardinals announced the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who last month became the first modern-day pontiff to abdicate the throne. They charted some new ground, choosing 76-year-old Argentine Cardinal Jor

When Big Companies Fall, Entrepreneurship Rises

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When a whale dies, the 30-100 ton body — or “whale fall” — slowly, silently sinks to the ocean bottom where it becomes the wellspring of a complex new microcosm of seabed flora and fauna that can thrive for well over half a century. These new eco

What is Emotional Coaching?

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Emotional coaching is one of the keys to raising happy, adaptable, and well-adjusted children in an often sad, intractable, and irrational world. According to John Gottman, author of Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, his research shows that i

Marketing ideas: what Losing My Job Taught Me About Leading

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It was the spring of 1984. I remember the day as if it were yesterday. It was a beautiful morning on Boston’s North Shore and I could smell the sea air as I drove to my job as the Director of Marketing for The Parker Brothers Toy and Game Company. Wh

Do you question your own leadership?

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Your company has just had a senior level position open up and with a company of only 25 people there was no clear successor. Well congratulations it goes to you! If you were in this scenario right now it would … Continue reading →