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…
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Can Appreciative Inquiry Help You Build a More Creative Solution?
What’s the one hallmark skill of most breakthrough organizations? Why do some organizations continue to expand and grow no matter what the economy is doing? I believe successful organizations are better at helping their clients solve their bigger challenges. I wondered can Appreciative Inquiry help your team build more creative…
Continue Reading....How Expanding Others Can Help You Reach the Stars!
Earlier this week, we talked briefly about expansion. Today, I want to give you a process that helps you engage and empower the people around you. I call this process expanding and it’s designed to help you be a true serving leader. Serving leadership is based on the idea that…
Continue Reading....How Do You Leverage Your Team to Make Better Decisions?
Earlier this week we talked about why people struggle to make better decisions. Today, we give you several tools that help you increase the speed and effectiveness of your decision making process. Today serving leaders are faced with more and more decisions than in the past as the speed of…
Continue Reading....What Will Serving Leadership Look Like in Year 2020?
So what does the next generation of business leadership look like? Who will be the big winners in the connected global economy? I’m always asked what qualities I should be developing in our future leaders. As I work with clients on development, succession, and exit plans, the more I’m struck by…
Continue Reading....Bringing New Board Members on Board
You’ve been wooing her for months, and finally she says yes. Congratulations! You have a new Board member. What does your Board member need to know, and how will he or she find out? Of course, you should share official documents. For nonprofits, those might include the by-laws, descriptions of…
Continue Reading....How Can You Leverage the Time You Invest in People?
What do the numbers 5, 15, 80 have in common? Why are these numbers important to a serving leader? I hope to share a key idea that will make you more effective as a leader. I can tell some of you won’t like this idea. But those who do will…
Continue Reading....How Can Serving Leaders Cultivate Their Strategic Advantage?
So you know you how strategic you are. The key question I got in email is, “I can be very strategic, but how do I get my team to implement my strategy?” I thought we should set some strategic ground rules on what to expect if you hope to be…
Continue Reading....What Serving Leaders Need to Know about Depression
Robin Williams’ tragic passing this week has reminded us that we must be always aware of how others are doing. As serving leaders, we work with many different people who may be dealing with depression. Depression is one of the major risk factors for suicide. There are over 16 million…
Continue Reading....Who Cares About Your Company?
The Harvard Business Review says that Market Basket is a profitable family-owned regional chain of 71 supermarkets in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, with around 25,000 employees. According to Forbes, it’s the 127th-largest private company in the United States, with $4.6 billion in revenue. But today, as I write, the…
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