Giving Gratitude? Say. Their. Name.
Say their name when giving recognition. It’s your job. Stop making excuses like, “I’m afraid I’ll forget someone.” Say their names.
Leadership
Unethical Leaders Capture Profits from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink, Unilever CEOs Hein Schumacher (June) and Alan Jope (prior), Philip Morris CEO Jacek Olczak, Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put, and Nestle CEO Ulf Mark Schneider have all demonstrated a lack of ethical behavior. Each of their organizations promised to exit business in Russia when war began. These leaders …
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We Can Not Lead from Positions We Need
Another reason for so many bad bosses in the world? We cannot lead what we need. If we’re dependent on our job, our leadership is hindered.
Our Nation’s Founders Would be Embarrassed by Our Leadership
When the United States of America was founded, we had great leadership. Today, our nations founders would be embarrassed by our leadership.
Where Fox News & CNN Both Failed
Nature abhors a vacuum. We observed this when CNN & Fox News both fired key personalities with little or no explanation. Here’s what we can learn from their mistake.
Black Eye for FIFA Leadership: Enabling Hate Over Love
What would you call a leader who threatened an organization trying to help a marginalized group? FIFA is one name you could use. Their promise to penalize any organization showing support for the LGBQ community is black eye for the organization and their leaders.
Would You Invest $3 Billion Where You Lead
If you had $3 billion to invest in any mission, cause or effort, what would you invest in? While also putting your personal time and energy behind it as the leader of that organization or mission? That’s what the founder and CEO of Patagonia recently did, while retaining a very small portion. I think it …
What is Speed Mentoring?
Speed Mentoring In a leadership development class I was teaching yesterday, one of the participants mentioned that their employer offers regular speed mentoring opportunities and it occurred to me a lot of you may not be familiar with this term or concept and what it is. So I’m sharing real quickly. Simply put, speed mentoring …
Business & Racial Awareness – Full Video
Recently, I partnered with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion expert, Glen Guyton from GuyStar Enterprises, to help business executives better address racial inequality in their workplace and industry. This 1 hour session was an abridged version of a 4 part, 4 hour series, based on the following books: White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White …
Diversity in Leadership Matters: Comcast’s NBC Universal Peacock Example
Welcome to 2020. Please don’t expect major corporations to grasp the concept of true diversity, unless you help. We see another example today, presented by Comcast’s subsidiary, NBC Universal, while launching the new streaming service, Peacock. What Happened To raise awareness and anticipation about the upcoming launch, NBC Universal created a series of commercials with …
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