Living Up to Your Heroic Leadership Potential
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you probably know all about the Heroic Journey of the leader. It begins when the Hero/Leader answers the Call to lead their team or organization on the path to positive transformational change and ends when they survive a Supreme Ordeal that teaches everyone involved how to operate on a new...
ReadLead Positive Named One of 2014's "Best Leadership Books" by Inc.com
In case you missed it, I wanted to share this exciting news with you: Lead Positive was named one of the “Best Leadership Books” of 2014 by Inc.com! In an article titled, “10 Tips and Quotes From the Best Leadership Books of the Year,” by Inc.com Contributing Editor John Brandon, appears this salient tip from...
ReadTop 3 Posts on Finding Your Motivation for the New Year
Happy New Year everyone! If you haven’t already, you’re probably thinking about what your New Year’s resolutions should be, how you’re going to make them happen, or if you should have any at all. Many people advise that you need to get specific about what you want to achieve otherwise it won’t happen. Well, my...
ReadTop 5 Ways to Lead Positive with Others
I have been spending a lot of time lately with an impressive team of strategic thinkers working on how to make the most of 2015 (more on this soon!). The sheer number of great ideas and collaborations we have come up with got me thinking about how important it is to Lead Positive in our...
ReadTop 5 Ways to Shift Your Mindset to the Positive
As we begin to close out the year, I’m taking the time to scan, snap, savor all that my team and I have been able to accomplish over the past year: publishing Lead Positive: What Highly Effective Leaders See, Say, and Do, launching my new website and blog, and most recently, working with an amazing...
ReadHow Do You Want to Show Up This Holiday Season?
Now that we have officially embarked upon the holiday season, you might be finding yourself rushing from task to task—personal and professional—feeling a little crazed thinking about all the things you “need” to get done before the new year. But ‘tis the season to be merry—not crazy stressed out, right? Stop for a moment and...
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Why Intuition is Crucial to Leadership
Intuition is what keeps us in alignment with our true selves and our true purpose. The way intuition plays out in leadership is a cultivation of what I call the Third Way. A Third Way presents itself when leaders step out of the narrow, binary thinking, for example, good or bad, right or wrong, win or...
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The Leader as Hero: 5 Essential Daily Acts
I often talk to leaders about putting themselves in the role of “Hero” as they tell their stories. Using the Hero’s Journey as a framework for explaining your vision and how you and your team will get there is a powerful tool to get people on board and start feeling the excitement of taking on...
ReadExpand Your Capacity for Wisdom
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau In Thrive, Arianna Huffington writes that wisdom is a deeper awareness and connectivity that “frees us from the narrow reality we feel trapped in.” In one of Psychology Today’s most popular blog posts, Adam Grant, author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary...
ReadBe The Anthropologist of Your Life: Finding Your Passion
A few months ago, Virgin founder Richard Branson wrote in Entrepreneur about finding your Passion Project. For him, the answer was simple: First, make a list of what you love. Then, make a list of what you hate. Last, see what pops out from those lists, and if nothing does, think about what on those lists...
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