Are you about to embark on a new senior leadership role? Maybe you’ve been promoted from within, or are joining a new company as a new director or vice president. Or, perhaps you are coach or leader to someone in this role. I have an excellent resource to recommend – Pam Fox Rollin’s 42 Rules…
Matchbooks and Memories
When you see this photo, what comes to mind? Cigarettes? Camp fires? Birthday cakes? Do you even recognize what this is? We were at a pumpkin-carving party and needed to light our completed Jack-o’-Lanterns. The party hostess rummaged in a drawer and found this book of matches. Immediately, Mr….
What Six Year Old Twins Can Teach Your CEO about Leading Change
Guest Post by Paul Smith, author, Lead with a Story Human beings are creatures of habit. Change is an unwelcome visitor. But what is it about change that’s so unattractive? Seattle-based author and workshop leader Evelyn Clark learned an insightful lesson on the cause and cure for human resistance to change from an unusual source—two…
Are You a Trustworthy Leader?
Are you a trustworthy leader? That’s the question I’m asking today over at the Smart Blog on Leadership site. I think those of us in leadership roles sometimes get it wrong when we think about building trust. We don’t draw a distinction between our personal integrity and our trustworthiness. The two are not…
4 Tips for Being an All-Star Blog Carnival Contributor
When I hosted the Carnival of HR – Fall Colors Edition, professional writer Wally Bock told me I did a nice job as a host. So nice, in fact, that he wrote a blog post about it called How to Host a Blog Carnival on his Zero Draft writer’s blog. Hey, thanks, Wally! If you’re…