How much impact did your mother have on your life? What lessons did she share that made you the person you are today? I had an odd experience this week I thought I might share as we celebrate Mother’s Day this week. I met a man I didn’t know while…
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Entrepreneurs Assemble! Can You Coach Your Super Team?
How do you manage a team of superheroes in your business? With all that’s required to build a successful business today, how do you coach and manage your team of superheroes effectively? Today’s competitive global markets requires very talented team members to grow and get results. If you’re a serving entrepreneur,…
Continue Reading....The Three Generations Nonprofits Want to Reach!
I don’t go to many nonprofit events. I get invited to too many: I can’t attend all of them. So, this spring I chose to go to The Welcome Project’s Yum: A Taste of Immigrant City and skip half a dozen other events held by groups about. Lauren doesn’t go…
Continue Reading....What Can Serving Leaders Learn from Our Best Friends?
How do you choose who to spend your life with? What common qualities do great friends have in common? What can we learn from our furry family members? I’m talking about our best friend, the one with four legs. I’ve written and shared many stories about the people who have…
Continue Reading....My Generation…and Yours
Does the title of this post mean anything to you? If so, chances are you’re a Boomer. Baby Boomers are the people born between 1946 and 1964, and there are a lot of us. People born between 1965 and 1980 are often called Generation X—“X” as in “unknown”—and people born…
Continue Reading....How Can You Connect with Baby Boomer Serving Leaders?
How many pieces of mail do you get every day? How many emails, messages, and social media postings do you see on a regular basis? If you’re the average baby boomer today, you are exposed to over 20,000 messages every day. It’s no wonder that your messages don’t get read. …
Continue Reading....What Can CEOs Learn from Apple’s Succession Strategy?
How would you like to follow the world’s most successful technology entrepreneur? What would you do to keep your organization growing against the odds? How do you create a successful succession strategy when your CEO is terminally ill? These were just some of the challenges facing Tim Cook, CEO of…
Continue Reading....Lead by Telling the Story of Where You Are Going
“We’ve never had a policy manual. The way we pass along our values is to sit around the campfire and share stories.” That’s the CEO of a $1.3 billion company talking. Elizabeth Weil, in Fast Company magazine, interviewed many business leaders about the power of storytelling. “Leadership is about change,”…
Continue Reading....Every Person Has a Story, Why Not Share Yours?
Last week, I watched Dave Isay receive the 2015 TED Prize of 1,000,000 dollars. This is a great honor for Dave Isay and his team at StoryCorps. When you win the TED Prize, you are asked to share your wish with a live audience of what you would like to…
Continue Reading....Three Ways Serving Leaders Build Breakthrough Connections
How can you compete with highly connected people? How do you connect to your many different stakeholders on a regular basis? The more complicated our lives get through using new technologies, the more critical it is for serving leaders to connect personally. I thought it might help to share several…
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