This week I was the luncheon keynote at Mohegan Sun at an event to celebrate and honor Administrative Professionals Day and to provide additional training to these women who are now being asked to take on the duties of professional meeting planners. I was debuting a new program called: Power Up Your Communication: Vocal Power [read more]
Michele Norris, host of NPR’s All Things Considered, addressed over 1,500 motivated leaders and supporters of the YWCA of the Hartford Region today at the Connecticut Convention Center. As the keynote speaker for the YWCA’s 15th annual In the Company of Women luncheon, Ms. Norris advised the people in the room to take their vitamin [read more]
In these days of overseas outsourcing and large layoffs, I start to wonder whether there’s any meaning in the old adage “Your People are Your Greatest Assets.” Perhaps we are replaceable by technology and people willing to work harder for less money. Here’s a motivating thought from one of my favorite thought-leaders Seth Godin, who [read more]
A lesson in crisis management We can all learn from Toyota’s current public relations disaster. It could happen to any one of our organizations. No one is immune from mistakes on a grand scale. Successfully managing through costly and publicly-visible problems requires leaders to have a particular skill set and mind set. It’s called crisis [read more]
Leadership consultant and author of The Navigator’s Handbook, 101 Leadership Lessons for Work & Life, David A. O’Brien shares his insights and ideas on why and how business leaders must step up to the plate and truly lead their organizations during these rocky economic times. (read a review of this book) “Today’s often frantic pace [read more]
Having the last word. It is often believed the he who has the last word, holds the power; the final bit of leverage in the dispute. Yet, it is often our last words that we regret the most deeply. The words of anger spoken to a loved one that become our last words due to [read more]
It is often believed the he who has the last word, holds the power; the final bit of leverage in the dispute. Yet, it is often our last words that we regret the most deeply. The words of anger spoken to a loved one that become our last words due to tragedy. The words of [read more]
I am bothered by the June 2009 cover of Fast Company magazine. It features a glamour shot of business woman and Presidential Fellow of the MIT Media Lab, Ms. Neri Oxman. This very well could have been the cover for Cosmopolitan magazine. But it was the feature picture for a lead business story “The 100 [read more]
I am bothered by the June 2009 cover of Fast Company magazine. It features a glamour shot of business woman and Presidential Fellow of the MIT Media Lab, Ms. Neri Oxman. This very well could have been the cover for Cosmopolitan magazine. But it was the feature picture for a lead business story “The 100 [read more]
Accountability is the Key (need some help?) We are living in very challenging economic times and need to call upon every internal and external resource that we can to turn around this mess and start heading in a positive direction again. But sometimes the things that we should be able to do ourselves (like holding [read more]
