CEO Coach, Marshall Goldsmith, recently blogged about his new model for leadership development that involves 8 steps outlined in more detail at http://tinyurl.com/ko9dbhk.
I always appreciate his practical ideas that can have powerfully results. Here are the eight steps:
Read MoreIn Sunday’s NY Times there was a featured article called Why You Hate Work
By TONY SCHWARTZ and CHRISTINE PORATH
MAY 30, 2014
Here are some highlights:
Read MoreA colleague shared this great piece written by George Carlin which reminded me how brilliant he was and such a keen observer of the human condition. Enjoy.
George Carlin’s wife died early in 2008 and George followed her, dying in July 2008. It is ironic George Carlin – comedian of the 70’s and 80’s – could write something so very eloquent and so very appropriate. An observation by George Carlin:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
Read MoreBecause I love wordplay I wanted to share this amusing and clever take on creating “new” words from old. Enjoy!
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The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary,
alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter,
and supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
What if there was an established channel in our organizations where the senior people could learn from the junior people and the junior people could be coached by their senior counterparts?
Recently I had the opportunity, along with my colleague Richard Pearlman, to work with Ron Kaminski, CEO of hbk Engineering, and his senior leadership team. After we completed a communication exercise together, we were chatting in the hall with Ron, asking about the company and how he develops leaders.
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