What Starbucks Taught Me About Being a Small Business Owner
What Starbucks Taught Me About Being a Small Business Owner Like many college students in need of health insurance and a flexible schedule, I worked for the largest coffeehouse company in the world:...
View ArticleTop 10 Leadership Lessons from the Villains We Love to Hate
We love to hate these guys, but we gotta admit it. They really know what it takes to be effective leaders. Identify Your Goal and Stay Focused. Gollum wanted his “Precious.” He didn’t let anyone deter...
View ArticleWhat Fire Ants and Meerkats Can Teach Us about Building a Strong Team
What Fire Ants and Meerkats Can Teach Us about Building a Strong Team What did the ant say to the entrepreneur? There’s a great joke in there somewhere, but for now, we’ve got something more serious to...
View ArticleYou call this a promotion?
More and more I hear this from people who have been given promotions or head hunted from other companies only to be treated badly when they step into their new role. If a person has made the cut for...
View Article4 Tips – The Theatrical Art of Negotiation
Recently, I was asked to participate on a panel discussion about NEGOTIATION for University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business. I was honored to be asked and accepted the invitation with only...
View ArticlePursue Your Passion to be an Innovatove Leader
I recently spoke at Stanford University on Innovative Leadership, detailing successful strategies and research-based leadership principles. Inspiring others to lead and innovate is my passion. I am a...
View ArticleWhy Leaders Should Embrace Failure
You failed! This is still one of the most negative things you can say about yourself and about others. Yet, it is a fact that failures provide us with some of the most important learning – and that...
View ArticleShould Leaders Have Team Building Skills?
A lot is expected of our leaders. Dictionary.com defines a “leader” as a person or thing that leads.” That may seem obvious, however, does that mean the leader must “lead” teambuilding sessions?...
View ArticleManagement Skills – Never Insert Assumptions Instead of Instructions
In a previous role a very wise manager taught me that when you are showing someone a task or writing an operating procedure you have to imagine that an alien has landed on earth and needs to be taught...
View Article5 Ways to get real Change from your Performance Reviews
December. End Year or annual Performance Reviews are going on right now or coming up very soon. Being an executive, how do you handle it? Nothing more than a yearly obligation and a time-consuming...
View ArticleEarly Leadership Lessons
Children are intensely impacted and influenced early in life in ways that affect their health, behavior, and choices going forward. This is why pre-natal care and early childhood education are...
View ArticleLeadership to Bring Out Their Best
By Linda Fisher Thornton While the true purpose of leadership has been debated, most people would agree that it includes bringing out the best in people and organizations. Some of the ways that we can...
View ArticleYour Leadership Edge: Why and How to Find It
Your Leadership Edge: To Move Up, Stand Out In a recent survey of working adults conducted by Accenture, 68 percent of the women thought it took hard work and long hours to advance in a company. The...
View ArticleHow to Utilize Your Staff During a Company Relocation
Company relocations for large businesses often look a lot different than small business moves. Large moves come with large fleets of moving vans and large movers to handle everything. Small business...
View ArticleLiving Leadership in the Lower School (L3)
In the past, I have written about the work a cohort of Lower School teachers at Agnes Irwin (of which I was a member) undertook to think about what leadership looks like in lower school girls. I have...
View ArticleExcellence is Not a Skill. Its an Attitude.
“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary” A business is merely a collection of human beings as much as a play or theatre production is. They must...
View ArticleThe Power of Networking
Yesterday I attended a great social media networking meeting about the power of LinkedIn, but that’s not what this post is going to be about. This post is going to be about the power of networking. The...
View ArticleIt’s Business Not Personal: Redefining Nice Girls in the Workplace
It’s 1972 and Marlon Brando is screen pursing his lips to utter the four words that will launch a million shady deals, back stabbings and acts of piracy. Acts justified by the four words that have...
View ArticleThree Interviewing Secrets HR Won’t Tell You
So, you’ve determined that you need assistance or support. Now what? You’ve never interviewed anyone in your life. Selecting a caterer for your wedding 10 years ago doesn’t exactly qualify you to...
View Article9 Lessons from a Closet Introvert: Networking Events Edition
I think it would surprise a lot of people in my life that I actually tend to be more introverted. Yes, the Myers Briggs has deemed it so. At first I was surprised, but then I realized the truth in this...
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