When the United States of America was founded, we had great leadership. Today, our nations founders would be embarrassed by our leadership.
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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.
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.
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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
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
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
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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For the first time in history, leaders can receive effective feedback from millions of people. Why is now a great time to be a leader? What makes today so different from prior centuries, or even decades? Technology delivered a leadership innovation called digital social media. Throughout history there have been many communication innovations, but digital media, and
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Our academic institutions are failing students. We fail to provide the most basic educations in leadership, while demanding students demonstrate leadership skills.
[fusion_youtube id=”http://youtu.be/D9MVX8R76Vc” width=”” height=”” autoplay=”false” api_params=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=””][/fusion_youtube] Ben Lichtenwalner presents Digital Media and the Future of Leadership at Hope College’s Critical Issues Symposium. Having difficulties viewing the video? Click here. Leadership is not easy, but digital media makes it easier than ever before. Whether or not you leverage this opportunity, there are major influencers
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