Transitions: All Bets Are Off, All Rules Are Gone

Transitions are one of the hardest thing for us as humans.   Like I mentioned in last week’s post, transitions can destroy what we know. All of the rules that we’ve learned to live by, the things that allowed us to be successful, no longer apply. Think of...
A Ted Talk with Brene Brown: Vulnerability

A Ted Talk with Brene Brown: Vulnerability

If you haven’t heard of her yet…then where the heck have you been? 😉 Brene Brown is a professor from Texas whose research and writing on vulnerability and shame are truly profound. She’s done a couple TED Talks but this one is my favorite–in...

Learning from The Dow's High

This Monday the DOW hit a new high point of 16,000. As I watched the DOW cross a new threshold, I couldn’t help but be reminded of one of the greatest lessons on leadership the stock market can teach us. The lesson is that of the age-old stock market mantra...

Reflective Leadership for Career Seekers

Last month I had a chance to speak with a fantastic group of career seekers at CRN: Career Resources Network where I posed a similar question to the idea I blogged about last week, only this time it went: How do prospective employers...

Reflection in Leadership

One of the challenges of leadership is recognizing, owning and accepting the fact that what you say and what people hear are often very different things. It can be hard to accept that it’s not all about what you say–it’s about what people hear....