It’s hard to believe, but in 2014 we have already experienced the Sochi Winter Olympic Games, the World Cup, and Wimbledon. And now we’re in the middle of the Tour de France. Life doesn’t get much better. As a leadership coach, I find that these events provide great opportunities for mining best practices about achieving […]
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“If Birkman can shine a brighter light on our true selves, illuminate some ways we are both similar and distinct from others, and help people see their value, then we have good reasons to be here for another six decades.” Roger W. Birkman On March 26, 2014, the creator of the Birkman Method quietly passed […]
I think we so often equate leadership with being experts – the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it’s almost impossible for just one person to do that. So if we could only have more leaders who would start by just listening, just […]
Have you heard of the new film John Carter? Based on a story by Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs, it opened this past weekend to disastrous results. The New York Times described the film as “a Big Budget Debacle That No One Could Stop.” At an estimated cost of $350 million, the John Carter story […]
Recently I had the opportunity to attend a presentation by Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler. Richard is an outstanding teacher, an acclaimed executive coach, and a sixth degree black belt in the martial art of Aikido. As you might expect, Richard takes a very disciplined approach to leadership development. His latest book is called The Leadership Dojo, […]