What would you do if one of your key team leaders was unable to work? Now imagine if your best backup got hurt, as well. Finally, imagine this happened at the most important time of your year. Could your team recover? How would you inspire your team to take their…
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Five Gifts of Inspiration for Serving Leaders this Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope you’re having a great holiday season this year. So what do you give the people who give so much to others? Today, I want to give you the gift of inspiration that you provide me with throughout the year. So what gifts…
Continue Reading....Be Kind. Always
This is a more personal message than I usually post, and I hope you will take it to heart. You may have seen the message floating around Facebook. “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.” I can tell you that the message is…
Continue Reading....Happy Chanukah as We Begin the Holiday Season!
Happy Chanukah to my many friends around the world! I love the traditions of Chanukah for many reasons. The holiday brings back so many wonderful memories of time with family and friends. Many of my earliest mentors, teachers, and business partners today begin the celebration of Chanukah. It’s an experience…
Continue Reading....Are Serving Leaders Ready to Be an Interdependent Leader?
So how do you lead in a connected world? What changes do we need to make if we hope to solve many of the world’s biggest challenges? We need to change something if we hope to achieve a different result. Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with…
Continue Reading....How Do You Choose to Serve the World?
As we wrap up another year, I thought I would invest my time in sharing what your future might look like. Yes, this is another year end blog that tells you about what the future looks like. But before you shrug it off as just another way to get you…
Continue Reading....Is What You Know About Motivation Wrong?
New research on motivation shows the way you motivate others is changing. The key questions for me are why and when? I get many great books over the holiday season and I try to work through them as quickly as I can. But when I got a copy of Drive…
Continue Reading....How Nonprofits Can Empower Their Stakeholders Through Social Media!
Want to know what you stakeholders are thinking without investing thousands of dollars for focus interviews? How do you find out what your best stakeholders are interested in? When I did business intelligence in the 1990’s, my clients invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to find out key information on…
Continue Reading....Why Should Entrepreneurs Reach for the Stars?
Virgin Galactic had a terrible accident on Friday, October 31. One pilot was lost and another seriously injured. Many people in the media are asking if this is the end of commercial spaceflight from Virgin Galactic. Experts are telling us what might have happened and all the challenges that have…
Continue Reading....What’s Your Biggest Risk in Life and Business?
Serving leaders take many risks in the pursuit of a larger purpose. Why do so few accomplish what they want in life? I think it’s because they don’t risk being all they can be. They spend their lives trying to be someone they are not. Risk takes many forms. Let…
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