by Steven Fulmer | Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
A couple weeks ago I wrote about connecting. In our current socio/political climate, connecting with almost anyone can seem challenging, or at times risky. But I think it’s important to remember that we don’t have to connect with every voice — we don’t even have...
by Steven Fulmer | Feb 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
“I don’t like confrontation.” That is a phrase I hear remarkably often. The perception there is that to be a great leader, you have to like — or at least welcome — confrontation. But confrontation is hard. It’s vulnerable and scary and for too many of...
by Steven Fulmer | Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
20 years ago Linda Ellis penned a beautiful poem called The Dash which reminds us that though our tombstones mark the dates of our birth and death, those dates tell nothing of who we were. It is the dash in between that represents our life. How, she asks in the end,...
by Steven Fulmer | Feb 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
As 2017 takes shape, I am finding myself recalibrating this masterpiece-in-progress I call my work & the impact I want to have on the world. It’s time to step up and call out our inner leader in meaningful ways. That is, after all, the heart of my work: to change...
by Steven Fulmer | Feb 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Published for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in my newsletter. Sign up here! Four days before the Montgomery Bus Boycott began on December 5, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat on a public bus. She wasn’t the first to take such a stand. And she wasn’t, as many...
by Steven Fulmer | Feb 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Pragmatism – i.e. practicality. A traditional, and often desirable, trait of leaders. Unfortunately, it reminds me of that Dudley Moore line in the 1990 movie “Crazy People,” when, as an advertising exec, he wrote: “Volvo’s: they’re boxy but they’re safe.”...
